Yeah! Its a grey area.
I could change it to local only search i guess but still.
There is fedi software with choices I dont agree with (akkoma fulltext search does return unlisted posts!)
Its complex and I could look into it a bit
@gabbomangabboman the wafrn dev 
@chuff 
@erisUkko (theymab moment) 
@FediTips "it's complex"
social media isn't a private journal, you compose content to share with other people, I get that some want to enforce boundaries and we should try to respect them, but the people who argue against indexers should simply not post if they want to enforce their own boundaries across mediums that have been historically open, like forever.
Signal exists for a reason.
We should stop entertaining ppl who think they have a right to enforce this for all.
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