FEP-268d: Search consent signals for objects

[tesaguri]

Hello!

This is a discussion thread for the proposed FEP-268d: Search consent signals for objects. Please use this thread to discuss the proposed FEP and any potential problems or improvements that can be addressed.

Summary

This FEP documents an extension property for Activity Streams 2.0 to signal the consent for an object to be searched by a given actor.

fep/fep/268d/fep-268d.md at main

[tesaguri]

Linking to the discussion thread of the related FEP for better discoverability:

FEP-5feb: Search indexing consent for actors

Hello! This is a discussion thread for the proposed FEP-5feb: Search indexing consent for actors. Please use this thread to discuss the proposed FEP and any potential problems or improvements that can be addressed. Summary This FEP introduces an actor-level attribute that can be used to explicitly express an actor’s consent (or lack thereof) to their public objects being indexed for search purposes. Akin to robots.txt and noindex meta tags, this attribute is advisory and relies on the inde…

Also cc’ing @noellabo, the maintainer of Fedibird.

[helge]

For me the “reply inheritance” of this property is missing (don’t worry it’s also missing in ActivityPub). It should be something like “non expanding”.

By non expanding reply inheritance, I mean that if a post has set

"searchableBy": ["http://alice.example/followers"]

and Bob replies, the allowed options should be

"searchableBy": ["http://alice.example/followers"]
"searchableBy": ["http://alice.example/followers", "http://bob.example"]
"searchableBy": ["http://alice.example/", "http://bob.example"]
"searchableBy": ["http://bob.example/"]

Maybe with some adjustments, but it would not be ok to say include "http://bob.example/followers", as this set includes new people compared to "http://alice.example/followers".