One thing I miss from Twitter that Mastodon has only partially is to be able to search through the network for some keywords, like breaking news, events, and so on, so I can see other people takes on that.

So I made a small project that aims to fill this gap.

I’ve seen some previous attempts that made many people upset, I hope this time nobody will take their forks and pitches to burn me as it’s:

• calling mastodon instances public local timelines via their API
• takes only posts that are made by accounts that OPT-IN to being indexed (there’s noindex flag that I honor)
• keeps the posts in database for a short time (currently one hour) to avoid abuse and also to lower costs of running it

It gives me a lot of fun and for me it’s quite useful, so I guess someone might find it useful as well.

Also, it’s open source, but GPL license so it stays FOSS forever.