With discover.holos.social we may have highlighted that many Fediverse users don't pay attention to their default settings. We built a fully respectful search engine that only relies on #ActivityPub, with instant deletion, updates, and indexing only consenting users. We will likely shut down the service, but the source code will remain available as we believe the approach is ethical. That same indexable setting already lets Google index your posts and keep them cached long after deletion.
Laurens Hof
in reply to Fedilab Apps • • •Fedilab Apps
in reply to Laurens Hof • • •Yes, some fair questions about the opt-out nature of the approach, since most instances enable indexable by default. That's a valid concern and it's really an instance-level decision, not ours. But the heated pushback mostly came from one person.
@reiver ⊼ (Charles)
in reply to Fedilab Apps • • •The vast majority of people are grateful for the work you do.
Don't let a very, very, very small group of aggressive individuals get you down.
Florian
in reply to Fedilab Apps • • •@apps @laurenshof I don't quite understand the concerns I have read.
* As long as the profile/account is indexable everyone is free to grab one's content. That's how I understood it. You're only grabbing data from indexable profiles, so it should be finde.
* Everyone following another account can read the accounts non-private posts.
You are only fetching content from accounts the service follows, so it should be fine.
* The only concern I would be having is: ...
Thomas
in reply to Fedilab Apps • • •Cool!
I didn't know about that before.
It's a great tool; searching across instances is something that has been missing until now! Especially whether federalization will take place or not...
A Fedi search engine that plays by Fediverse guidelines — who wouldn't welcome that?
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