@rra very interesting, thank you. I believe there was discussion about making the indexable flag more flexible but was rejected but I can't remember the specifics.

I don't mean to sound too negative but I attended a medical data ethics conference once and researchers there overwhelmingly were against privacy and consent lol, but this may be specific to medicine where people believe they are saving lives.

Researchers moving from Twitter to Fediverse is wild, Twitter users are already weird compared to the larger population and Fediverse is super weird. Any research based on looking for your keys under the streetlamp because that's where the light is, is going to be unusably biased.