I found out by accident that the atom feed on my personal site is served with the wrong content type, that is text/xml instead of application/atom+xml.
I was able to override the content type (and encoding) in my `nginx.conf`:
location = /atom/atom.xml { types { } default_type "application/atom+xml; charset=utf-8"; add_header x-robots-tag "noindex, follow"; }
While I had the file in my editor, I also added an `x-robot-tag` as specified in [1]
[1]
https://developers.google.com/search/reference/robots_meta_tag