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.

  • filt
    3·
    2 months ago

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

    • Shatur@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      2 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.