On the call we were talking about how Mastodon servers DDoS websites when they generate link previews: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/11/mastodon-stampede/ There’s some interesting questions about how to do this more efficiently without a bad user experience.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci There are tens of thousands of Mastodon servers. I believe the hit is caused by the servers all checking the link at once, not the clients.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci was it this post? Is the fediverse about to get Fryed? (Or, “Why every toot is also a potential denial of service attack”) – Aral Balkan