Have an option to disable the upcoming public search index

[ShadowJonathan]

Pitch

I would like to be able to disable public post search via environment variables, so that the elasticsearch instance will not index them.

Motivation

This is caused by me seeing this PR, which basically assures that mastodon soon will get a public search ability; mastodon#26344

I'd like to get ahead of that, and ask if it's possible to disable this via environment variables, like so many things already are configurable for glitch-soc

[old-adapdr]

Seems like a sane and necessary safety precaution to protect vulnerable users & communities, there is a huge difference in finding a person and easy (granular) access to that person's interactions. This should be reflected in via some form of settings.

[tobyink]

Don't want to bike shed too much, but environment variables seems a weird way to control this. Wouldn't a config file option or a setting available in the preferences screens make more sense?

[ShadowJonathan]

AFAIK the environment variable file (.env.production) is pretty much the config file, unless there's another one I'm not aware of?

[tobyink]

There's config/environments/production.rb, config/settings.yml, and basically the entire config directory.

[ShadowJonathan]

Ah, I just found mastodon#23808, which may be interesting to look at.

If that one is opt-in, and gets merged, then I consider this issue resolved.

[ClearlyClaire]

Upstream is going to use a separate, opt-in setting. I believe we can close this issue? It's not going to be per-post like mastodon#23808, but it's going to be opt-in either way.

[ShadowJonathan]

Yeah, reasonable.