Jerry 🦙💝🦙@gossithedog @secstodon @awakecoding @wdormann there has actually been a few projects to do exactly this - and they met with extreme resistance by many instance owners. The the point that I was asked to kill his account on Infosec.exchange, despite “project” not having anything to do with Infosec.exchange
Jett 
@jerry @gossithedog @secstodon @awakecoding @wdormann I can kinda understand, the vibe on mastodon seems to feel a lot closer than other platforms. If people are indexing I think it should be opt in per account at least (or disclosed serverwide).
Marc-André Moreau@jett @jerry @gossithedog @secstodon @wdormann why would indexing of *public* toots require such special treatment? It's not like they're confidential or anything, they're literally published for everyone to see. How long before someone writes a bot to collect all the toots in a separate database to index them, but also keep a permanent copy? Nothing really prevents this right now, unless I missed something
@awakecoding @jerry @gossithedog @secstodon @wdormann There's really two scales of public, findable and searchable. I think some people appreciate having content that others can find through their social graph vs being searched out directly.
I agree that nothing is really going to stop it, relying on others to respect people's wishes is a bit of a pipe dream.
Andrei KucharavyIt's a speedbump. If it's a tool that exists any troll with a minimum time to loose will be able to abuse it in new, creative ways (remember ((( ))) back on Twitter in 2016-2017? ).
People who can write such an index and run it in a sufficiently discrete manner to fly under the radar either have better things to do or really good reasons to do it that are unlikely to involve harassment.
TBH not very different from script kiddies / people who write 0-days in infosec.