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We welcome all marginalized identities. This Mastodon instance is generally for folks who are LGBTQIA+ and Allies with an interest in tech work, academics, or technology in general.

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@msh I'm not really well versed in ActivityPub etc, but I assume mastinator does not follow the actual account but rather scrapes the public feed (through an api or not).

So I have a few questions:

1) what would a block accomplish? That wouldn't block a scraper from accessing public data?

2) Blocking scrapers is hard and easily circumvented, but are there ip lists?

3) Shouldn't follower-only post not appear in public feeds? Is it a courtesy feature of the client to not show these?