Steve Bate on Nostr: So, I start a new under-development #ActivityPub server and try to (unsuccessfully) ...
So, I start a new under-development #ActivityPub server and try to (unsuccessfully) Follow from my self-hosted Mastodon instance. Within an hour, multiple Fedi-crawlers are probing the experimental server endpoint. Are they querying my Mastodon instance for known hosts or is there another way they are finding this new experimental server so quickly?
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