…ok I hear y’all but you know opt-in is ultimately useless for search capabilities, right? So just stick to saying you don’t want search to exist idk.
I actually quite like the idea of limited, instance-controlled search indexing. The instances already have your data even if you didn’t opt in and I don’t see anyone screaming about getting federated. And opt out instance-managed search would be subject to the same data retention that regular instance operation is subject to.
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@zkat you'll have a way more limited pool to get search results from but that's kind of the point. If there's truly such a need for a group of people to be searchable, they can opt-in and find each-other.
I also don't really have a problem with instance-local search when scoped to what the user could've already have seen (Searchtodon had mostly the right idea there). The big problem with Searchtodon is that it holds a centralized index across all it's users.
Instances already have this data, it's in the conceptual security model, it's the addition of an extra (centralized) party that worries me here
