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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 โ€” relationships. No project description exists anywhere. Here is what we found, and how to check your own instance.

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

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

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[โ€“] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 10 points 1 week ago

The client itself points nowhere either. It names a university and an email address, but no address where you could read up on what this is about.

Shame they apparently didn't do the obvious thing and just ask. I'm guessing it's just some clueless undergrad project.