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Dan Gillmor (dangillmor@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Aug-2023 09:02:29 UTC Dan Gillmor

Vital new feature has been added to Mastodon!
I just made my account widely searchable -- thank you to the Mastodon team for this!
Not available on all instances, but several large ones -- notably Mastodon Social -- have added it already.
It's in Edit Profile / Public Profile / Privacy & Reach and looks like this:
In conversation about a year ago from mastodon.social permalink
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1. Search selections in Mastodon settings: Search Control how you want to be found. Do you want people to find you by what you've publicly posted about? Do you want people outside Mastodon to find your profile when searching the web? Please mind that total exclusion from all search engines cannot be guaranteed for public information. Include public posts in search results Your public posts may appear in search results on Mastodon. People who have interacted with your posts may be able to search them regardless. Include profile page in search engines Your profile page may appear in search results on Google, Bing, and others.
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