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Re:Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps ... by saghm on Friday August 28, 2020 @05:33PM (#24310229)
I think you might have misread my comment; I wasn't suggesting whether a course of action was correct or not, but just explaining how it could technically be feasible. I interpreted the comment I responded to as not understanding how it would be possible for Google to have done this a certain way, and I was theorizing one possible way they might have done it.
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Re:Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps ... by mynameismonkey on Friday August 28, 2020 @07:55PM (#24311811)
Ah, then yes, apologies -I did not mean to put words in your mouth. Technical feasibility is likely easier than imagined; most Mastodon services use the auto-generated list that appears on their "about" page - easily scraped if not available through the API - here's the list on the instance I moderate on for example:

https://toot.wales/about/more#unavailable-content

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