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Why profiles are not featured in discovery by default? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 months ago by Shatur@lemmy.ml to c/mastodon@lemmy.ml
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I recently discovered that the "Feature profile and posts in discovery algorithms" checkbox in the account settings is disabled by default. I didn't even know this option existed.

I'm curious why it's disabled by default. I think most users would want to be featured.

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[–] filt@infosec.pub 3 points 3 months ago

Uh, privacy. Pretty sure that's straight forward.

[–] CyberTailor@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Informed consent

[–] Shatur@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

I think user should be directly asked about it. Having it in settings will be confused for newcomers: they register on Mastodon, see zero activity and think that it's a dead place.