FR#154 – Search and Community

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨wisdomchicken@piefed.social⁩ to ⁨fediverse@lemmy.world⁩

Fediverse search engine Holos Discover shut down this week, showing structural issues how to distinguish between individual and community consent.

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rimu@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Community members pointed out that the indexable flag is enabled by default on many instances, which means that a significant number of accounts with the flag set never made a deliberate choice to be indexed. The flag that’s supposed to signal “this person consents to being searchable” frequently signals “this person’s server admin didn’t change the default”, and on a protocol-level, there is no difference between these two options.

Maybe Mastodon could get the user to set this during onboarding. Then no one can say they didn’t choose.

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- WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  its interesting because even fecesbook has a setting for this
  
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peacefulpixel@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
i genuinely don’t understand how being indexable could be considered a violation of privacy. consent, sure. but why would you want to avoid being indexed?

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