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A feature that's been missing for Mastodon has been fulltext searching of posts, aka fuzzy search. :fedi:

Searching is mainly done via hashtags so a common trend is to add the relevant tags at the end of posts.

It's a bit of a controversial topic to have the content of posts be searchable on Mastodon, but I'm sure with proper consent options to opt-in or opt-out that hurdle will be solved with good implementation. The discussion lives on here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/21627

There are exceptions though using custom implementation patches serverside like this one on universeodon.com written by clever people like VyrCossont https://github.com/VyrCossont/mastodon/pull/8

For news based instances you really do want some forms of better searching like this implemented.

Welcome to the fediverse and best of luck! :elmo_fire:
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