A crawler wanted to know who talks to whom on our server
For two weeks, a client from China's state-run academic network queried our Mastodon instance for who follows whom. Not content — relationships. No project description exists anywhere. Here is what we found, and how to check your own instance.
https://www.martinmuc.de/blog/crawler-who-follows-whom/
#Fediverse #Mastodon #Privacy #FediAdmin
Martin 2.0 :verified_breze:
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2026-08-23 12:24:59 UTC
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2026-08-23 12:24:59 UTCEvent JSON
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