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klu9@piefed.social to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 10 days ago

A crawler wanted to know who talks to whom on our [Mastodon] server

www.martinmuc.de

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A crawler wanted to know who talks to whom on our [Mastodon] server

www.martinmuc.de

klu9@piefed.social to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 10 days ago
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A crawler wanted to know who talks to whom on our server – martinmuc.de
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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.

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.

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https://www.martinmuc.de/blog/crawler-who-follows-whom/

Mastodon post:
https://muenchen.social/@martinmuc/117144806957574027

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    10 days ago

    They could’ve just asked nicely I guess. But who even knows if it really was for academic research…

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