Still reading and hearing takes that Mastodon has “failed” as a Twitter alternative. Listen, it’s ok if it doesn’t work for someone—unlike Twitter, I think Mastodon requires more effort and cultivation to produce an experience that feels meaningful. It’s been worth it for me. But there is definitely a smell of…not sour grapes but people making broad assumptions based on their own experience while ignoring millions of other people. Will Mastodon top 100 million? Who knows. Who cares?
@glennf
Needs full text search with opt-out for individual postings and users with NoIndex or similar.
We're going to be wiped out or #Meta will bring their #ActivityPub compatible #Twitter replacement that's actually what the majority of people want. #Mastodon
Keep in mind that there are limitations of the system that are core to design choices made when it was being designed.
For example, ActivityPub has no way to ensure that text isn't being available for search (or even display!) regardless of opt-out.
And that's no minor thing that can be tweaked later. It is core to how the system was set up.
Maybe for the best, maybe for the worst, but it's important to keep that sort of thing in mind.
A lot of choices are pretty set in stone at this point.
@volkris @glennf
I can see the big players like #Meta making a universal indexing service for the #Fediverse with opt-out when they finally launch their product.