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/
@gamingonlinux You need to write some click-bait, my man.
You can have these for free..
Number 11 is the best!
@popey “try it before it’s banned”, this is so amusing.
@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.
@[email protected] Were you testing because of today's post on itsfoss.org saying "Please don't boost this on Mastodon"?
@kim The complaint:
"Please Don’t Share Our Links on Mastodon: Here’s Why!"
news.itsfoss.com/mastodon-link…
@fritzy @gamingonlinux They do have live Mastodon comments on their page. I will not dig deeper to see if there is anything of generated server-side.
The mentioned a CDN, but maybe that's media only and the page is live and dynamic.
I love that on mastodon, people asking for boosts is not a thinly veiled attempt at manipulating the algorithm for more future engagement like it is on other platforms.
Because there is no such algorithm. I love it
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Yeah starting to think that the "DDoS issue" is less of a problem with Mastodon itself and more of a problem with the sites themselves
Context if you don't know what I'm talking about:
https://news.itsfoss.com/mastodon-link-problem/
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