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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦

Wow, search is coming to Mastodon and privacy options are simplified!

IF your profile is discoverable (findable by name, not account id, and visible in Trending toots), AND your toot is public, the toot will be indexed by servers where text search is enabled (enabling text search is optional feature and carries a sizeable data processing a storage cost for the server). Whether your server enables search or not doesn't matter - other people's servers do the indexing.

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p

Gargron: "It is my decision to unite all discovery features in one setting, because all of this stuff is an expected part of a social network and splitting it up into different settings that everyone has to opt-into one by one just to get the same behaviour they get by default on other social media seems like a bad user experience. Also, discoverable is already a federated attribute."
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦

Edit: the plan to reuse an old discoverability setting has been changed, search indexing will be a new setting. The critique I had here is no longer relevant.

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