Here's a first: did a Google search on something and one of my own Mastodon posts came up as a result.

Beginning to think that the cultural norm here of not allowing search isn't going to last all that much longer.

@mmasnick Hooray! You're feeding the ShatGPT behemoth once again!

... Seriously, the question of "is it good to have your fedi posts indexed by a search engine?" can't be separated from "what the fuck is going on with search engines nowadays?!".