In-reply-to » 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.

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