Web developer. Lead developer of PieFed

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  • Community members pointed out that the indexable flag is enabled by default on many instances, which means that a significant number of accounts with the flag set never made a deliberate choice to be indexed. The flag that’s supposed to signal “this person consents to being searchable” frequently signals “this person’s server admin didn’t change the default”, and on a protocol-level, there is no difference between these two options.

    Maybe Mastodon could get the user to set this during onboarding. Then no one can say they didn’t choose.