@atomicpoet

That's a good point.

Offhand and broadly:

LIMITING your reach should be the opt-in, and if you disagree, I think you're using this place wrong.

If you want group privacy than don't use something **literally designed for** the opposite of that.

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@atomicpoet

This ends up looking a lot like security through obscurity.

Search can absolutely be implemented adversarially, which will bypass any sort of controls/opt-in functionality and not supporting it natively absolutely means that’s going to happen sooner and the tools will work better.

@atomicpoet No idea what drives anti search. I’ve added it. Oddly enough we’re able to have much better mod tools and proactively catch things with search. In many ways fediverse platforms could be lighter and more easily distributed based on search vs db/redis/streaming and web workers

@atomicpoet We need search; I am fine with it being opt in if that is what it takes to overcome objections. People who create for a living or write to spread a message *want* their posts to be found.

@atomicpoet right? I want an algorithmic feed that shows me everything my follows are interacting with. I want to know what words are trending in my circle of the fediverse.

I just also want douchenozzles who send rape threats and transphobic insults to be sent a kick in the balls over standard TCP/IP.

I liked the hellsite, other than its ownership and its lack of hackability to fix its flaws.

My worry though is what person will suffer moderating such a place.