Mastodon gets better search, onboarding, and cross-server interactions

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• Jackthelad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The instance I’m on got updated to 4.2 yesterday, but the new search still isn’t working for me.

  Usually, I’d have thought this was because it needed to take time to index all the posts, but people on other servers are saying that the search is working for them. 🤔

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  • Microw@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Search only works if your instance runs a search engine installation. Typically this is done by the admin installing ElasticSearch:

    docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/elasticsearch/

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    • Jackthelad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ah, I see. I’ll have to ask my admin whether it’s going to be added or not.

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• gamer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And Lemmy… stays the same

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• Uranium3006@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  just in time for X to require paying to post

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• Anonymousllama@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Looks like a decent workflow update, still going to be confusing for brand new folks I bet

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  Mastodon, the federated microblogging platform, has been updated to version 4.2, which comes with massive improvements to search and the web interface, particularly for logged-out and first-time users.

  One of Mastodon’s many charming qualities is that, unlike Twitter X, Bluesky, Instagram, and most other social media platforms, the user base is split across thousands of instances, each of which can decide to federate with or block any of the others.

  If you’re logged in to Twitter X, for example, you can click on a link to a tweet post, and you’ll be able to retweet it, reply, star it, whatever.

  In order to engage, you had to copy the URL, go back to your instance, paste it into the search box, and then do whatever you were going to do (assuming you remember).

  If you haven’t tried Mastodon yet — or you tried it and bounced off — you may be interested to know that 4.2 also improves the sign-up process in the web interface.

  One last note: the search and web interface improvements only show up on servers that have installed version 4.2.

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  The original article contains 645 words, the summary contains 184 words. Saved 71%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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• cricket97@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Mastodon is ass. Instead of having social media corporations deciding what you can say, it’s some random neckbeard who threw together a server. And your account does not transfer if the admin decides he doesn’t like you. Hissy fits over defederation are already tearing apart a lot of good instances.

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  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Swap mastodon for lemmy and Twitter for reddit and it’s the same comment.

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  • spiritedpause@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is exactly how Lemmy works, yet you’re here…

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  • waow@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My tip would be to try finding German instances. Generally, Germans do this fediverse stuff right, they use it for everyday chill stuff in contrast to Americans who just want to discuss politics and gender all day long.

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  • chockblock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Then stand up your own server and govern it as you please.

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    • cricket97@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t want to run servers to participate in social media.

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• Spacebar@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Any improvements to the moderator tools?

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• doublejay1999@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Any social media that involves followers is fucked or can get fucked.

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• benjhm@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So, can Mastodon 4.2 full-text search now see Lemmy posts and replies, even without hashtags? You can follow Lemmy communities and accounts from a Mdon account, that way the info is in the Mdon instance databases, but as the new search is “opt-in” only, do Lemmy communities or users have to set some flag to agree that our posts and replies are searchable ? This might help discoverability of Lemmy.

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• JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Mastodon search functionality was probably the worst of any site I’ve ever used.

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• JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Mastodon search functionality was probably the worst of any site I’ve ever used.

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