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Has anyone remarked on the irony that this appeal to stop using discord, because it isn't searchable from the outside, is published on mastodon, which is also n
by azangru 2y ago
Has anyone remarked on the irony that this appeal to stop using discord, because it isn't searchable from the outside, is published on mastodon, which is also not searchable from the outside?
I tried to google for things I had earlier seen on Mastodon, but was never able to find the relevant post again. Even modern-day Twitter, which is impossible to just browse these days, is more googlable.
- viraptor 2y ago> on mastodon, which is also not searchable from the outside? By default. You can turn on indexing for your account if you want to.
- azangru 2y agoDoes this mean indexing within the database that drives this Mastodon instance, or indexing by web crawlers such as googlebot?
- Springtime 2y agoMy understanding when I looked into this a couple years ago is the optional wider scope search is only possible to enable for one's own posts/account and while logged in[1], but still limited. At a server level the only search possible (using the regular Mastodon) is for user-added tags on posts rather than full text and this was an intentional decision[2]. I'm not familiar with indexability outside Mastodon instances, though can't really recall coming across them naturally in search. [1] https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/elasticsearch/ https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/elasticsearch/ [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/yv1cl4/global_search/iwcro0w/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/yv1cl4/global_sea... Edit: updated with links from my prior research.
- eviks 2y agoThis post is searchable, so no irony