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Searchtodon, a private timeline search for #mastodon released

Searchtodon is a new tool that searches only your own private timeline, and does so by looking only at messages that you personally have seen before. The developer states it is explicitly cohering to Mastodon’s stated goal of not having public search, by limiting it only to your home timelines.

Developer Jan Lehnardt seems to have taken recent community backlashes against Mastinator and Fediverse Almanac to heart, by keeping it to private posts, and actively inviting community feedback. He cites Tim Bray’s essay on private and public Mastodon as an inspiration on how to approach privacy.

Searchtodon
Announcement post by developer Jan Lehnardt
Tim Bray’s essay on public and private Mastodon