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Two years later.
Want to know one of the major reasons Mastodon didn't catch on with journalists and large website owners?
It is *invisible* in referrer statistics.
Here's my blog from the last month.
BlueSky now sends me more traffic than Bing.
How much traffic does Mastodon send? It is impossible to know due to the "noreferrer" header in all links.
(I'm not saying your privacy isn't important. But you can't grow a community if no-one knows you exist.)
@Edent Interesting, hadn’t considered that.
I wonder if there are Mastodon clients that auto-add UTM codes. That’d be *something* at least.
@paulsilver @Edent Oh jeez, that’s a big mistake! 
@paulsilver @zackkatz @Edent This has been fixed a while back.