This is awesome! Full text search has come to Mastodon, and it's being rolled out in a responsible way.
I know full text search is a hot-button issue. For journalists, researchers and many others, FTS is essential. Plenty of others have good reason to keep their content unsearchable.
If you're in the latter category, you don't need to take any action. Your toots will remain unsearchable just as they were before.
For the rest, please manually change the default so your toots will be searchable. This will address a major shortcoming that has kept a huge number of fedi holdouts from joining.
To do that, go to Preferences > Public Profile and select the Privacy and Reach tab. Then check the Include public posts in search results.
*** Edit: sorry, my initial post told y'all to click the wrong box. Fixed.
@dangoodin Hey Dan a minor correction: I think the new full text search checkbox is the one that says "Include public posts in search results", not the one that says "Include profile page in search engines" (which is the one you circled)
The option to have your posts be indexed by search engines like Google existed before the very recent native Mastodon full text search feature; I'm pretty sure this is the case because it's something I deliberately opted in to, several months ago. Here's a screenshot of my setting page, with my existing "Include profile page in search engines" opt in, and the new "Include public posts in search results", which I haven't opted into yet.
@gsuberland@cxiao@dangoodin its a local only post so only people on Infosec.exchange can see it and unfortunately that isn’t a setting I can edit after the fact.
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