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Q to the techies: would link clickthroughs from instances and just fedi in general be recognizable to the web admin of the news sites (for example)? Just thinking how soon before news and public sites notice (esp with twt being on fire, reddit being on its way too, and fb/ig being unnavigable) fedi visits and actually start reorienting themselves.
(It's so embarassing - I can find Indonesian media, Singaporean media and journalists, Filipino tak payah cakaplah - even their institutions and unis are coming onboard, even Thai news and public sector content in English! But Malaysia........ KWSP or khazanah got stock in twitter or what?)
you're probably thinking of the "referer" http header.
it's certainly possible that the admins of news sites could be tracking that, but monyet.cc sets a "referer-policy" of "same-origin", which as far as I know prevents that from leaking to other sites.
kbin.social, on the other hand, doesn't seem set this policy (but I just looked at the front page, and didn't investigate further).
Ooo interesting! this is where you can see I'm so outdated - is this the same stuff that used to inform blog pingbacks? Or just about anything in a google site kit dashboard that tracks source of the referral?
pingbacks use a different technology, see the "notification medium" row of the table in this wikipedia page.
as for google site kit, I'm afraid I'm not familiar with that, based on what I could find by googling, I think the answer may be yes (at least, it may be one of the methods used), but you would need someone more familiar with site kit to answer that conclusively.
Aha, this is helpful!