@david@mstdn.ything.xyz @aurynn I think you might be missing some context here. The leadership for Mastodon's development often doesn't support safety features (like tools that thwart web crawlers).

Could other implementations do this? Sure, but it's a pretty "core system" kind of issue, to my understanding, and without buy-in, it gets more difficult.

There are other projects in the works that are likely to help alleviate some of this. Gotosocial comes to mind.

Not all solutions need to be technical solutions, though-- lack of community support has continued to be a powerful tool for enabling better user privacy in the fediverse.