We are launching https://fedisearch.com , a website for doing full text search on fediverse content.
This could be very useful for small instances users that are missing full text searches, just about anyone else who is looking for a blazing fast fediverse search engine.
We have a well behaved indexer that honors users' preference on opting out status indexing.
Please give it a try and let us know what you think.
@fedisearch what I’m wondering here is if this move counters the anti-stalking mechanism. From the creator’s manual, by challenge the ‘search’ engine, one will be protected from stalkers if they have any.
@feizong
Understood the concern, but we don't see this as a threat to any user in the fediverse.
Allow us to elaborate:
Even when mastodon purposefully dumbed down the search functionality, pleroma and misskey search are still functioning at full capacity. Also, if content producers allowed search indexing, their content would've been searchable on Google as well. Https://Fedisearch.com respects every content producers' privacy; as long as they turn on noindex option, none of their content would be indexed by us.
