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
margot@mcc i've heard about this and im... assuming its high priority to fix if its possible bc it seems like a REALLY bad problem for a Social Network
Dr. Brandon Wiley@emaytch @mcc Whenever there is a post about the Mastodon stampede problem, there is a secondary stampede caused by people posting this link to jwz's blog post about it: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/11/mastodon-stampede/
Mastodon stampede
"Federation" now apparently means "DDoS yourself." Every time I do a new blog post, within a second I have over a thousand simultaneous hits of that URL on my web server from unique IPs. Load goes over 100, and mariadb stops responding. The server is basically unusable for 30 to 60 seconds until the stampede of Mastodons slows down. Presumably each of those IPs is an instance, none of which ...