turns out those "missing" 7 bits are 1 sign bit (which is also zero) and the rest are just unused bits in the current 64-bit Unix Epoch timestamp!

so it looks to me like Mastodon is only generating 57 bits of data for its IDs

any idea why that is?

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/lib/mastodon/snowflake.rb#L99

found this handy tool which collects common slop user agents into server-readable files to assist with blocking

obviously there is more to do, but it is a start!

https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt

if you came here looking for cache coherency then you're in the wrong thread