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anyone remember when it was intentional that search wasn't a thing and people defederated from instances that catalogued other instances' posts for search? just me?
Genuine question: why would people have a problem with making stuff you post publicly searchable?
If someone wants the ability to control how their data is used, it should be their right.
Who gets to survey the data? There are companies and governments who stand to profit of our existence being thrown into their machines.
There is a violence in that I still haven't figured out how to describe, but people lose their lives over this stuff. That should be enough to warrant such a right
I never said people shouldn't have that right, i was just genuinely wondering why it's important to people. Thanks for the insight, definitely good points you make. :) But somehow I think, if a big company wants to scrape that data (thats still publicly available, whether you make it natively searchable or not) they can do it anyway. So if you're worried about that, shouldn't you rather just not post that stuff to the public? (I want to emphasise again that I'm not trying to argue against you, I just want to understand as I'm not that well versed on these topics)
It's all good
To me this feels like the same logic as "If you have nothing to hide, why do you care?"
I mean, you're right, people shouldn't post stuff publicly if they truly don't want it to be indexed, but that doesn't mean that whatever we want to say or do publicly can't be used against us in some way even if we think that what we say and do is ok. Like existing while being queer online, for instance