the issue of #nobot #noindex, it's the fact it's opt-out

and people are fedup of opt out and want opt in

• It should have stayed up (55%, 122 votes)
• Right call to shut it down (26%, 57 votes)
• No opinion (18%, 40 votes)

[here we go again]

"Only public posts from consenting users are indexed. We respect every signal available."

But there is the entire problem in a nutshell:

What about people who have never heard of Holos Discovery and who never will unless they receive a Follow request?

Allegedly only consenting users are indexed

I have #NoIndex #Nobot set on my profile and I have to approve Follows

But during the convo I had earlier that person said:

"Your content has been removed from our index and you won't be contacted again."

To which I replied:

"So you've --> already <-- "scraped my content" without my knowledge or permission..."

I then asked about second-party scraping -- someone I Follow and interact with has been "Discovered" and Indexed -- and thus my content has been indexed too, without my knowledge or consent

At that, they never returned to answer

The core point is, historically a lot of people have not wanted to found, scraped, and indexed for unknown third-party use

Here we go again...