opt-in search

This is what I don’t understand: When people mark a post as public and discoverable, meaning Google and Bing and such can already find and index it, why would one need to opt-in to making it available via Mastodon search? Isn’t that what Unlisted is already for?

@woelkchen @andypiper Consider it a compromise, given how many people were dead set against *any* search.

I’m not on Mastodon, why were people against search?