[update: it sounds like the search respects the profile discoverability opt-out, which federates, unlike the "search engine indexing" thing which does not? That's much less bad than we thought. It should still be opt-IN, though, not opt-out. https://oliphant.social/@oliphant/110373855153327649]
so apparently universeodon.com is doing FULL INDEXING on every post they receive, without consent. It sounds like maybe even non-public posts??
"we didn't get people yelling at us, so it must be okay! but now people are? what the fuck?"
source:
https://terrible.city/@wolfe/110367918333706199
https://mas.to/@tokyo_0/110362014921240639
https://social.pixie.town/@joepie91/110361918551656137
https://universeodon.com/@supernovae/110351720627808159
I don't usually make fediblock posts, but uh
yeah if you don't want to be indexed without consent...
#fediblock universeodon.com for fulltext indexing incoming posts.
@IceWolf Do I interpret that correctly that the issue is that they have full-text search based on the Mastodon Elasticsearch enabled or that they built tools on top of that?
@louis Masto built-in search is fine, /unless/ Gargron recently made it search for everything, which we haven't heard about but considering Gargon it's a possibility.
Normal Masto search only returns stuff you've already encountered, so it's perfect as a "where was that thing again?" tool (and even BETTER than full search on stuff you haven't seen!) /and/ – importantly – can't be used to find randos you don't like and jump on them.
@IceWolf Thanks for the clarification. 👍
I was worried for a moment. I would want search to be "search everything" either.
@louis Ohhh yeah totally. Being able to search your OWN stuff is actively really nice.
@louis So like, as far as we know it's custom tools, yeah.