Mike Masnick ✅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.
Doctor Biobrain@mmasnick I don't understand why people oppose having Mastodon indexed or added to searches or whatever.
One of the reasons I post here is to hype news sites and Youtubers I like because I think they deserve a wider audience. I think it'd be nice if they got boosted in algorithms outside of Mastodon. But maybe there's something I'm missing.
@biobrain it's a cultural norm. the general reasoning, as i understand it, was that this community is premised more on consent and permission, and search is done without consent... and there are worries that it then leads to brigading and attacks. i'm not sure if that really holds up though.
Aulia Masna
Laurens Hof@[email protected] @mmasnick @biobrain Quite a few of the fediverse microblogging servers that are not mastodon have full search enabled. Akkoma, Pleroma and CalcKey do, not sure on Friendica, and I thought that Hubzilla also does not.
It makes the entire conversation about not having search on the fediverse kind of bewildering, since search is openly available, just not on Mastodon.
Part of the problem with everyone's myopic focus on Mastodon, I guess.
It makes the entire conversation about not having search on the fediverse kind of bewildering, since search is openly available, just not on Mastodon.
Part of the problem with everyone's myopic focus on Mastodon, I guess.