Referer traffic from Mastodon.social has started coming through to my blog!
Full write-up this lunchtime.
If you run a large Mastodon instance, and have upgraded to 4.4, please turn on referer headers.
It is *so* important for the health of the Fediverse.
At the moment I have 4x the followers on Mastodon as I do on BlueSky - but my blog's stats don't show that. In fact, they show the opposite!
Yes, it is privacy preserving. Yes, it makes a difference to publishers. Yes, it will show how vibrant an ecosystem we have.
If you have a fediverse account, you can quote this note from your own instance. Search https://mastodon.social/users/Edent/statuses/114819318744425589 on your instance and quote it. (Note that quoting is not supported in Mastodon.)