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Andrea Grandi 🦕 (andreagrandi@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 06:42:49 JST Andrea Grandi 🦕

Has @gotosocial been removed from FediDB ? After reading about their project I wanted to check how many servers and users it has... but apparently it has been removed 🤔
Does anyone have more information?

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  Annika Backstrom (annika@xoxo.zone)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 06:42:49 JST Annika Backstrom
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  @andreagrandi You got some answers already, but here is a writeup from one of the devs if you want their perspective https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/issues/3723#issuecomment-2630492256
  tl;dr crawlers were ignoring GtS robots.txt files, the devs added a way to randomise stats, some crawlers retaliated by removing all GtS servers from their database
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    [feature] Change `instance-stats-randomize` to `instance-stats-mode` with multiple options · Issue #3723 · superseriousbusiness/gotosocial
    
    In discussion of #3718 it was pointed out that admins may wish to just serve 0 for all stats instead of serving accurate stats or random stats. We could do this by changing instance-stats-randomize...

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