I want to do a test on how much traffic and resources the Mastodon embed takes on my server, so boost this plz

Edit: *all done, you can stop sharing now lol*

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/steam-deck-most-played-for-april-2024-has-plenty-of-fallout/

Steam Deck most played for April 2024 has plenty of Fallout

Valve have revealed the most played Steam Deck games for April 2024, and to no surprise you've all be playing a whole lot of Fallout haven't you.

GamingOnLinux
Break me you cowards
Well nearly 100 boosts and it's done practically nothing, interesting.

@gamingonlinux You need to write some click-bait, my man.

You can have these for free..

Number 11 is the best!

#linux

@popey “try it before it’s banned”, this is so amusing.

@gamingonlinux

@gamingonlinux almost like basic design will prevent a link preview handler from crashing your site ​
@gamingonlinux This is because you are not running your website on a potato
@gamingonlinux this is because of that bit from It's FOSS? I hope you can conclusively show this is FUD.
@gamingonlinux I think who boosts you is more important than how many. A single boost from someone follows by users on thousands of servers is going to do more than 100 boosts from single-digits. That being said, I've done my part twice in case timezones matter too 8-)

@gamingonlinux your server pushes the toot out right?

where you expecting to get slashdot'd?

@kim It was done for a specific reason: floss.social/@rdnielsen/112367…

The test was not whether the Mastodon server with the post would handle it, it was about the link in the post.

When the other servers received the post, they would all go to the linked site and fetch the thumbnail for the article.

At the time, this other site that had recently started posting on Fediverse had complained that this fetching was causing too much load on their site. Many people were questioning whether that would really be an issue on a decent setup, so @gamingonlinux ran this thread as a test.

RDN (@[email protected])

@[email protected] Were you testing because of today's post on itsfoss.org saying "Please don't boost this on Mastodon"?

FLOSS.social

@kim The complaint:

"Please Don’t Share Our Links on Mastodon: Here’s Why!"

news.itsfoss.com/mastodon-link…

/via pawb.fun/@Draconic_NEO/1123756…

@gamingonlinux

Please Don’t Share Our Links on Mastodon: Here’s Why!

We need to talk about this problem. Should Mastodon step up?

It's FOSS News