Some instances on the Fediverse offer full-text search of statuses (not just self-authored ones), and I'm wondering how to deal with that. I'm tempted to block every instance doing so, because the current expectation of our users is that their statuses will not be full-text searchable by strangers.
Opinions? What should we do with instances offering full-text search for all statuses? #mastoadmin
@rixx Why is that the expectation of chaos.social users?
I'd assume that anything I post on the internet will be able to be found via some search engine, does Mastodon provide some protection against that?
@christianbundy You can opt out of search-engine indexing, and our Terms state that our users' statuses must not be systematically scraped.
Not everything that is technically possible is ethical.
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The search full-text search feature in mastdon already acts ethically in this way as fa as i know. It does **not** scrape posts that indicate they dont want to be indexed. You can only search for texts or posts that a server has given permission to see.
