Here @sneak makes some good points about the "public but not searchable" paradox of the Fediverse:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23119759
@buherator i also think it's funny that people defederated my instance when my spider/indexer (which i never had the attention span to finish) actually talks directly to instances via the normal unauthenticated http api.
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