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I'm pretty sure it's currently baked into the protocol. But instances themselves could probably add crawlers to fetch a few recent posts. You might want to ask @kbinMeta about that.
I think there are policies from some instances on Mastodon around crawling so it would have to be done carefully and preserve server sovereignty.
I kinda get it for microblogging platforms, the content is probably changing too quickly for that. Do any Lemmy/kbin instances have similar rules? Fetching something like top-10 posts of the week doesn’t really add any serious traffic.
But an api call made specifically for that is definitely a better option. I wonder if it’s being discussed between the devs.