One of the biggest criticisms of Mastodon's technical capabilities involves how limited its search system is. With a new update, everything has changed.
anyone remember when it was intentional that search wasn’t a thing and people defederated from instances that catalogued other instances’ posts for search? just me?
That was about indexing without people’s permission. This new system is opt-in so if you don’t grant access in your settings, your posts won’t get included.
If someone wants the ability to control how their data is used, it should be their right.
Who gets to survey the data? There are companies and governments who stand to profit of our existence being thrown into their machines.
There is a violence in that I still haven’t figured out how to describe, but people lose their lives over this stuff. That should be enough to warrant such a right
I never said people shouldn’t have that right, i was just genuinely wondering why it’s important to people. Thanks for the insight, definitely good points you make. :)
anyone remember when it was intentional that search wasn’t a thing and people defederated from instances that catalogued other instances’ posts for search? just me?
That was about indexing without people’s permission. This new system is opt-in so if you don’t grant access in your settings, your posts won’t get included.
That’s fantastic news, glad to hear it
Genuine question: why would people have a problem with making stuff you post publicly searchable?
If someone wants the ability to control how their data is used, it should be their right.
Who gets to survey the data? There are companies and governments who stand to profit of our existence being thrown into their machines.
There is a violence in that I still haven’t figured out how to describe, but people lose their lives over this stuff. That should be enough to warrant such a right
I never said people shouldn’t have that right, i was just genuinely wondering why it’s important to people. Thanks for the insight, definitely good points you make. :)