It's not about 16 years of SEO optimization, it's about a good chunk of the fediverse being opposed to search indexing because they have nightmare about bots:

It's not about 16 years of SEO optimization, it's about a good chunk of the fediverse being opposed to search indexing because they have nightmare about bots: https://fedsearch.io/ https://fedsearch.io/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33546937 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33546937 https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/131amhl/why_are_so_many_against_crawlingindexing/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/131amhl/why_are_s...