Inapplicable Mastodon error message? 

A-buh?

Via an account on a different server, I saw a post I wanted to boost from this account, so I plopped the post URL – hellsite.site/@luna/1035742489 – into the search bar like I've done before, but got this response: "Searching toots by their content is not enabled on this Mastodon server."

But... it's not by content, it's by URL. What causes this?

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Inapplicable Mastodon error message? 

@ElectricKeet No idea; I was able to search for the URL and it popped right up for me.

re: Inapplicable Mastodon error message? 

@ElectricKeet we've seen the same error on gamemaking.social and don't understand it

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