Whether you’ve fully migrated from Twitter to Mastodon, are just trying out the “fediverse,” or have been a longtime Mastodon user, you may miss being able to search through the full text of “toots” (also known as posts). In Mastodon, hashtags are searchable but other, non-hashtag text is not. The unavailability of full-text search lets users control how much of their content is easily discoverable by strangers. But what if you want to be able to search your own posts?
Some Mastodon instances allow users to do full-text searches of their own toots but others don’t, depending on the admin. Fortunately, it’s easy to full-text search your own Mastodon posts, thanks to R and the rtoot package developed by David Schoch. That’s what this article is about.
