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    4 days ago

    Does robots.txt really work in the fediverse? At least on lemmy, the content can be retrieved on different hosts, all of which have different robots.txt files. Unless it is somehow “baked” into the protocol.

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      3 days ago

      Major search engines respect robots.txt, but as you said some instances allow them but this is not a scalable way