c/fediverse · by wisdomchicken@piefed.social · 202d

FR#154 – Search and Community

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr154-search-and-community/

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 · 3 pts · 201d (1 reply)

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.

WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 200d

its interesting because even fecesbook has a setting for this

peacefulpixel@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 200d

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