Mastodon

What is Mastodon?

About

Mastodon is a fetcher operated by Mastodon. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often Mastodon visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

Fetchers visit websites on-demand. They're normally dispatched by apps to present metadata about a link (e.g. the title and thumbnail image) to a user.

Type

Fetcher

Fetches web content on behalf of an app

Detail

Operated By	Mastodon
Last Updated	20 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0% of top websites are blocking Mastodon

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Country of Origin

United States

Mastodon normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers

Top Visited Website Categories

Pets and Animals

Arts and Entertainment

Science

Hobbies and Leisure

Games

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Robots.txt

Should I Block Mastodon?

Probably not. If you block a fetcher, it won't be able to fetch the metadata it needs to display a link preview. Fewer people will click on the link to your website without this.

How Do I Block Mastodon?

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Edits Are Not Scalable

New agents are created every day. Instead, serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically.

Set Up Automatic Robots.txt

You can block Mastodon or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

User Agent String Mastodon/4.3.8 (http.rb/5.2.0; +https://mastodon.iking.ca/)

# robots.txt
# This should block Mastodon

User-agent: Mastodon
Disallow: /