Eugen RochkoIf text search is ever implemented, it should be limited to your home timeline/mentions only. Lack of full-text search on general content is intentional, due to negative social dynamics of it in other networks
Sandro Hawke@Gargron I respectfully disagree. Users should be allowed to have public information when they want it (and choose to go past content warnings), even if someone thinks it's unpleasant or problematic.
@Gargron and in practice, how can you stop broader search from being implemented by someone in an open system? If users want it, someone will provide it.
@Gargron and just to link it here, I've opened an activitypub issue on this: https://github.com/w3c/activitypub/issues/221
Daniel Appelquist@sandhawke @Gargron should it be up to the instance provider to decide whether their instance participates in any global search? That way instances (for example, ones specialising in marginalised communities) can keep their content private?
@torgo @Gargron that makes sense as a default, but should users be able to change it? And is the setting advisory, so bad actors can ignore it, or is it enforced, and if so how, given that it might be boosted, or maybe someday forwarded or quoted? See https://github.com/w3c/activitypub/issues/221