- setting
SEARCH_ALL_VISIBLE_TOOTS=truein your instance config will let users search all non-private posts, not just the ones they've interacted with. - prefixing a search query with
๐will use ES simple query string syntax instead of Mastodon's weird broken subset of it, which will let you use "double quotes" for literal strings including white space, + to force a term to be included, or - to force a term to be excluded. - prefixing a search query with
๐will use ES regular query string syntax which is like simple query syntax, except:- syntax errors will cause the search to fail, so if you don't get anything back, that's why.
- you can specify individual fields to match on. if you don't specify a field for a given search term, it does a normal full-text search for