[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. oliphant.social/@oliphant/1103]

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:
terrible.city/@wolfe/110367918
mas.to/@tokyo_0/11036201492124
social.pixie.town/@joepie91/11
universeodon.com/@supernovae/1

I don't usually make fediblock posts, but uh
yeah if you don't want to be indexed without consent...
universeodon.com for fulltext indexing incoming posts.

@IceWolf@masto.brightfur.net you know that akkoma and misskey instances can all do fulltext search on all posts right?

@IceWolf@masto.brightfur.net @iro_miya@mk.absturztau.be There are valid things to get angry at, and this is not one of them. Just because Mastodon kneecaps any form of useful search doesn't mean the rest of the fediverse should do the same.

Posts received by an instance that are public
should be searchable by that instance. Global search? No, I'm not a fan of that. But this?

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@privateger @iro_miya also this is not "kneecapping any form of useful search"

you /don't fucking need to search anyone's posts, anywhere, anytime/

sure, there's critters building opt-in search systems, and I wish them the best of luck

but this isn't that.

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