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Mastodon 4.2 released, with (opt-in) search, and UX improvements (blog.joinmastodon.org)

submitted 1 year ago by andypiper@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Lots of small improvements across the user experience, and opt-in search, make this an important release.

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[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

opt-in search

This is what I don't understand: When people mark a post as public and discoverable, meaning Google and Bing and such can already find and index it, why would one need to opt-in to making it available via Mastodon search? Isn't that what Unlisted is already for?

[-] stad@m.stad.social 11 points 1 year ago

@woelkchen @andypiper Consider it a compromise, given how many people were dead set against *any* search.

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Consider it a compromise, given how many people were dead set against any search.

But public posts are already searchable because they are public. That's what all public posts on the internet are. They are visible to Google and Bing. Defaulting to not make public posts searchable from within Mastodon just drives people to proprietary search engines.