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@ragica @ada Google's already on the case for both instances I use. But hilariously this link won't work in some countries, so just trust me here...screenshot below shows my search results, which are plentiful. (alt text: screenshot of Google search results for my home instance, The Pit, searching for "bikes") https://www.google.com/search?q=site%253Athepit.social+%22bikes%22
Again though, that's not what people are worried about, because it's not where most harassment comes from. On twitter for example, people would have saved search terms, and then almost in real time, they'd drop in and harass people talking about whatever topic they want to troll. That's the behaviour people are trying to stop, and someone being able to hit up google to track a specific user or instances content down isn't enabling that behaviour.