In which I put my head in the lion’s jaws and write 2700 words about privacy and full-text search on #mastodon: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/12/30/Mastodon-Privacy-and-Search
Private and Public Mastodon

ongoing by Tim Bray
@timbray This lays out the issues really well. I like the idea of instances having their own defaults; with the tightest ones literally not allowing access to anyone outside that server.