Mastodon: Enabling full-text search #180

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opened 2023-12-07 12:18:58 +00:00 by benjaoming · 2 comments

benjaoming commented

2023-12-07 12:18:58 +00:00

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Motivation:

As the Fediverse is growing, the demands for features of Mastodon are moving from basic to more advanced. The feature of full-text search enables searching across the user's own post and more:

Mastodon’s full-text search allows logged in users to find results from:

public statuses from account that opted into appearing in search results

their own statuses

their mentions

their favourites

their bookmarks

accounts (display name, usernames and bios)

It deliberately does not allow searching for arbitrary strings in the entire database.

I'm currently stuck once in a while because I cannot re-find my OWN old posts, simply because it's too time-consuming to scroll back in time to find them.

It seems that we would have to run ElasticSearch which sits on top of a Java stack... which makes it sadly large, over 500 MB.

Technical implementation:
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/elasticsearch/

Motivation: As the Fediverse is growing, the demands for features of Mastodon are moving from basic to more advanced. The feature of full-text search enables searching across the user's own post and more: > Mastodon’s full-text search allows logged in users to find results from: > > * public statuses from account that opted into appearing in search results > * their own statuses > * their mentions > * their favourites > * their bookmarks > * accounts (display name, usernames and bios) > > It deliberately does not allow searching for arbitrary strings in the entire database. I'm currently stuck once in a while because I cannot re-find my OWN old posts, simply because it's too time-consuming to scroll back in time to find them. It seems that we would have to run ElasticSearch which sits on top of a Java stack... which makes it sadly large, over 500 MB. Technical implementation: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/elasticsearch/

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label 2023-12-12 18:57:06 +00:00

samsapti commented

2023-12-12 20:17:59 +00:00

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Would it be possible to use OpenSearch? :)

benjaoming commented

2023-12-14 12:03:39 +00:00

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Oh yes!!

Mastodon is tested with Elasticsearch version 7. It should support OpenSearch, as well as Elasticsearch versions 6 and 8, but those setups are not officially supported.

Oh yes!! > Mastodon is tested with Elasticsearch version 7. It should support OpenSearch, as well as Elasticsearch versions 6 and 8, but those setups are not officially supported.

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