sorta funny gotosocial setting I ran into:
# "baffle": Serve randomized, preposterous stats at instance and nodeinfo
# endpoints, and DISALLOW crawlers from crawling those endpoints in robots.txt.
# This mode can be useful to annoy crawlers that don't respect robots.txt.
# Warning that this may draw the ire of crawler implementers who don't
# respect robots.txt, and may therefore put a target on your instance.
https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/configuration/instance/#__codelineno-0-203
fedi-map does respect robots.txt but the seed data I used didn't and indeed, I was baffled
Harblinger
npub1uy…da9dw
2026-08-24 11:05:48 UTC
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2026-08-24 11:05:48 UTCEvent JSON
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