Mastodawn

Tim Bray Dec 28, 2022

Thinking about how to enable full-text searching of a useful subset of Fediverse posts in a way that is controlled by post authors and has humane unsurprising defaults.

The current yes/no binary toggle under Settings/Other (that most people have never seen) probably isn't going to do the job.

The problem needs a long-form write-up (coming), and is controversial, but I’m pretty sure won’t go away, so the community should get in front of it.

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Jesper Joergensen

@timbray I bumped into this conondrum myself when I posited that great search would be good. Clear people are looking for better ways that what we had in the past to control indexing of their posts. Not to speak of the question of ownership and copyright. It feels like there is an opportunity to solve this well in mastodon/fediverse.