Do not backfill users that have opted out

nanos / FediFetcher

FediFetcher is a tool for Mastodon that automatically fetches missing replies and posts from other fediverse instances, and adds them to your own Mastodon instance.

https://blog.thms.uk/fedifetcher?utm_source=github

MIT License

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Do not backfill users that have opted out #131

Closed nanos closed 5 days ago

nanos commented 5 days ago

This will stop backfilling of profiles of people that have opted out of various Mastodon search/bot/discoverability features.

Specifically, we'll not backfill user profiles where any of these are true:

Turn off 'Include public posts in search results'
Turn off 'Feature profile and posts in discovery algorithms'
Added the NoBot tag to their profile

nanos commented 5 days ago

To clarify this does only extend to backfilling user profiles. It does not extend to fetching missing replies in home timelines. This is because

the latter is very different, conceptually, from the former, and
because FediFetcher never fetches profiles when fetching missing replies, so has no insight into the profile status.