If you've been waiting for full-text #search on #Mastodon, please go to #TootFinder and sign in. The more, the merrier.
https://www.tootfinder.ch/
Thanks to @buercher for building it.
It's opt-in, not opt-out. It respects Mastodon culture and doesn't index accounts that don't sign in.
That means the index might be small if we don't spread the word.
@ezekiel
That is not how safety and privacy works, I fear. Privacy is a friction landscape (as put by Luciano Floridi): even if something is out in a publicly accessible space, making it much easier to access (changing the friction) affects its privacy profile, and can be dangerous for someone.
Classic example was that data dump from okcupid.
@gubi @petersuber
@gvdr @ezekiel @gubi @petersuber
Interesting reference to "friction". In a social network, any additional search facility impacts on all users, not just those opting in. It does so through the out-of-context visibility of all posts that are referenced by accounts using the facility. And through the associated change in culture: people will look at posts differently.
Mastodon has an agreed search standard: each author decides how their posts are found, via hashtags. Stay with the standard.
petersuber
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Ezekiel 
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