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FR#154 – Search and Community (connectedplaces.online)
submitted 3 days ago by wisdomchicken@piefed.social to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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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 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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 points 1 day ago

its interesting because even fecesbook has a setting for this