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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://xoxo.zone/users/annika/statuses/113964781615856395">Annika Backstrom (annika@xoxo.zone)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 06:42:49 JST</a><a href="https://xoxo.zone/@annika" title="annika@xoxo.zone"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/7563-48-20240830152223.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Annika Backstrom" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Annika Backstrom</a><div><a href="https://mastodon.social/@andreagrandi/113959090108693337" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a><ul><li></ul></div></section><article><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/@andreagrandi">@andreagrandi</a> You got some answers already, but here is a writeup from one of the devs if you want their perspective <a href="https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/issues/3723#issuecomment-2630492256" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/issues/3723#issuecomment-2630492256</a></p><p>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</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4527342#notice-8864802">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-02-08T06:42:49+09:00" title="Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 06:42:49 JST">about 14 days ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://xoxo.zone/@annika/113964781615856395" rel="external" title="Sent from xoxo.zone via ActivityPub">xoxo.zone</a></span></span><a href="https://xoxo.zone/@annika/113964781615856395">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: opengraph.githubassets.com</div><h5><a href="https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/issues/3723#issuecomment-2630492256tl;dr">[feature] Change `instance-stats-randomize` to `instance-stats-mode` with multiple options · Issue #3723 · superseriousbusiness/gotosocial</a></h5><div></div></header><div>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...</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Annika Backstrom (annika@xoxo.zone)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 06:42:49 JSTAnnika 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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