@atomicpoet "If you change your mind, just remove the magic word in your profile. Tootfinder will stop indexing your account and your toots will eventually disappear from our database (after 3 months)." Why 3 months?
@atomicpoet@fediversenews I for one welcome search. And, the steps were easy. I'm already searchable. Search, lists, hashtags - these have always been my go to tools to find what I am looking for - also to connect with people world-wide.
@atomicpoet@fediversenews It's a very stereotypically Mastodon solution. I have to put a special code word in my bio? And then also submit my username to a third-party database? No, thanks.
@Crazypedia@KeithAmmann@atomicpoet@fediversenews then, the community would pile on the author of the search engine which disrespects the robot.txt directives, as usual, and the search engine would probably shut down
