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		lamontcg on June 14, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Reddit blackout has left Google barren and ful... Pretty sure Mastodon doesn't allow indexing because that can be used to brigade users and they're trying very hard to actively avoid creating the dogpiles that twitter almost actively incentivizes.

unshavedyak on June 14, 2023 | [–]

Oof, seems like that should be a instance setting (with user override), not the whole software. Good to know.

whimsicalism on June 14, 2023 | [–]

Does not seem to be a worthwhile tradeoff to me. Twitter is also not really well-indexed.

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