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Out of interest, is a large cross-instance search tool like this aligned with the mastodon ethos?
by urbandw311er 4y ago
Out of interest, is a large cross-instance search tool like this aligned with the mastodon ethos?
- lixtra 4y agoThe tool is Google. The text is about how to use Google to search Mastodon.
- CharlesW 4y agoSearch unlocked the web and made it discoverable and navigable for most. For new federated services to be relevant, there needs to be some (hopefully a bunch of) ways to discover those piles of standards-based stuff.
- nomel 4y agoReligion rarely aligns with practicality.
- int_19h 4y agoIs there any consistent "Mastodon ethos"? Or is it an ethos of a subset of the community that wishes it were universal?
- CaptainFever 4y agoFurthermore, Mastodon is just one software. There are tons of other softwares with different cultures that formed, such as Pleroma/Akkoma, PeerTube, Plume/WriteFreely, Lemmy… I would also take this opportunity to point out that Lemmy already has full-text search.
- jefftk 4y agoYes: this is limited to searching the part of Mastodon that has opted in to the web crawler indexing.
- CaptainFever 4y agoI would like to point out that “Opt out of search indexing”, the feature you’re likely referring to, does not work perfectly. From my experiments, the user’s own pages are opted-out, but their content is federated to other servers (by design), which is then rendered on other servers without the opt-out. Or at least, where their content is part of another piece of content (eg as a reply, or as a parent post).
- VectorLock 4y agoA lot of people in the Fediverse community will probably shit a brick over this. Pretty much just like tbray says.
- boyter 4y ago100% people will freak out over this.
- whalesalad 4y agoI can’t imagine why people would be upset about this. The entire purpose of mastodon and the fediverse is OPEN communication. If you don’t want people seeing your content don’t make it publicly accessible.
- CaptainFever 4y agoFrom my time in the Fediverse, it seems that people have come to expect privacy from two things: 1) Privacy by obscurity. The platform was too small for people to care, so content was sort of private, until it was put into the spotlight. 2) Social shaming as a way to maintain the above. However, others have pointed out that this does not work on bad actors, or corporations such as Google. As a server admin, I attempt to resolve this by making it very clear in the privacy policy that all content is public. Even direct messages can potentially be public as it is not encrypted and federated to a number of untrusted servers. Indeed, even the default Mastodon UI warns the user of such, telling them not to share sensitive information over direct messages, and when deleting their account, mentioning that their content may still (very likely) live on in other servers.
- somenewaccount1 4y agoInteresting that it's not. Without a global search space it makes mastadon look like a poor version of AOL chat rooms.
- 0x6c6f6c 4y agoWell now I want to theme/fork Mastadon or Pleroma to do this.