@krohne enshrining some third-party rando in the signup flow is not the way to do this.

the way to do this is to have a standard way to explicitly mark posts as searchable, the same way that Mastodon and several other Fedi servers already have a `discoverable` flag that explicitly marks accounts as searchable. that way, *any* search engine has a way of knowing what people have volunteered for.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/23808 unfortunately, the effort to patch this into Mastodon has stalled out.

@krohne if we don't build something like this, "is this post set to public visibility" is the only intent signal to work with, and searching all public posts surprises Mastodon users.

(and only Mastodon users. "public = searchable" is the rule for full-text search implementations on most other Fedi servers that have it, except for GotoSocial.)