Back in 2022, I wrote this rather grumpy post on Mastodon, the federated social media platform. @[email protected] EdenMastodon enforces a "noreferrer" on all external links.I have mixed feelings about that.As a blogger, I want to see *where* visitors are coming from. I also like to see (and sometimes join in) with the conversations they're having.But, I get that people want privacy and don't want to "leak" where they're visiting from.Is it such a bad thing to tell a website "I was…
  • Skull giverEnglish
    3•2 days ago

    Mastodon is federated and there are thousands of sites. Even if they all opted-in, their statistics will be fragmented.

    Surely this alone defeats the benefits for bloggers and other content hosters.

    Good for mastodon admins that want the feature to be enabled, I guess, but I don’t see why anyone would do that.