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.

@timbray Is there an existing client that makes it easy to just search for posts I've seen before?
@emergentnexus Not that I know of.