How exactly do you imagine moderating an instance works?
As admins and mods, we don't sit in front of the user list all day watching what every user is up to. 80% of the time, we rely on accounts like that being reported.
I don't understand the question; the Fediverse has nothing to do with apps. Apps are just frontends that access services.
But you asked for a YouTube alternative, and for that, your phone's hardware is completely irrelevant.
Or are you planning on installing a PeerTube instance on your phone?
generally the bots that scrape sites for information. One of the easiest ways to exclude them is to read the user agent.
yeah, this info isn't necessary for technical operations, but some software uses it and shows the client under the post, for example; as an admin, that often helps me identify problems quickly.
Could you explain the use case? I don't quite understand the background.
Now that AIs are flooding the instances, some admins are blocking these kinds of requests.
That depends on whether the software allows it; Mastodon uses the AUTHORIZED_FETCH variable for this. If it's active, blocked instances can no longer fetch posts via AP.
How exactly do you imagine moderating an instance works? As admins and mods, we don't sit in front of the user list all day watching what every user is up to. 80% of the time, we rely on accounts like that being reported.