Some notes regarding Fedisearch and opensource .

We mentioned earlier that Fedisearch.com is not opensource. Despite many benefit opensourcing could bring to the community, we have reservations:

Disabling fedisearch's compliance mechanism to robots.txt and robots meta tag is quite trivial.

Having folks run individual deployment of fedisearch that indifferently indexes everyone's content would severely damage fedisearch's reputation, and most likely will kill this project in its incubation.

Hence, no opensource, unless there's a good solution to the problem above.

@fedisearch I don't think that there is anything that can damage your reputation more than being a proprietary service in this network.

Gotta love the monstrous JS tracker as well. For all the administrative purposes of course, soooo many administrative purposes.
https://developer.matomo.org/guides/tracking-javascript-guide
"Accurately measure the time spent on each page"
"Internal search tracking"
"User ID"
"Content Tracking"
"Download and Outlink tracking"

@namark I don't see mastodon and other community publically deny access to the network from close sourced software. Would you want to substantiate?

The use of analytic solutions on fedisearch is fully disclosed in our privacy policy; data collected are not personally identifiable.