Sean Boyer 🇵🇸 FREE PALESTINE<p>Unless you <a href="https://fed.sbcloud.cc/tags/selfhost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfhost</span></a> your own <a href="https://fed.sbcloud.cc/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a> instance, or you're a <a href="https://fed.sbcloud.cc/tags/mastoAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mastoAdmin</span></a>, you have likely taken <a href="https://fed.sbcloud.cc/tags/fullTextSearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fullTextSearch</span></a> for granted. </p><p>Behind search for masto is a resource-hungry <a href="https://fed.sbcloud.cc/tags/java" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>java</span></a> application called <a href="https://fed.sbcloud.cc/tags/elasticSearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elasticSearch</span></a>. Sure you might be able to get Masto to run on a <a href="https://fed.sbcloud.cc/tags/raspberrypi4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>raspberrypi4</span></a>, but you won't be running elastic search with it. </p><p>Having recently moved my instance to a much more powerful system, I now run ES, and WOW what a difference being able to search post makes! Soooo many times I wanted to reference a toot that had scrolled by but had no way of finding it. Now I do!</p><p>Even though I've put some serious resource limits on ES, it's bar none the most resource intensive service running (out of around 25). </p><p>Please consider sending a few bucks to the <a href="https://fed.sbcloud.cc/tags/MastodonAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonAdmin</span></a> of your instance. Better yet, if you can afford it, sign up for a monthly donation. They need it.</p>