@dsalo I think the root of this problem is that people who want to be forgotten historically chose the absolute worst platform for their communication: a public[1] microblogging platform.
I strongly believe a searchable, archived Fedi would be immensely useful and necessary so please don't suggest that everyone in the Fedi are on the same page about this. I'm not against having controls (either opt-in or opt-out) to control indexing on a per-account basis, but unfortunately we can't even seem to have a proper discussion about the possible solutions.
[1] The consent so many people seem to miss is in the act of pressing the button to *publish content on the open Internet*.