mccThere is an interesting article titled "Please Don’t Share Our Links on Mastodon: Here’s Why!" about the startling load that Mastodon's mass-distributed link preview generation has on small independent webservers. But I cannot link it to you, because of a reason
The Doctor@mcc And yet, it hit the frontpage of orangesite. :/
@drwho Orange cite doesn't have the same effect
@mcc Do they do local caching? Or do just so many people who see links there never bother to click on them?
(Only slight sarcasm - I avoid the place like I avoid tick bites.)
@drwho Orange Site is one website and Mastodon is many websites
@mcc Wait a minute... did ItsFoss just rediscover slashdotting? O.o
@drwho In this case what we are describing is a specific type of automated slashdotting caused specifically by Mastodon's distributed nature and link preview generation, which fetches pages with a different pattern from end-user traffic
DJ Sundog@mcc I did some digging - I did not know that was how it worked.