Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬
#Mastodon delays firm fix for #linkpreviews that #DDoS sites
Many websites and apps offer previews of their online content that usually each contain a headline, a subheadline, a small excerpt, and an image. When someone on Mastodon posts a link to that content, their Mastodon instance fetches the preview from the content's host server to display in people's Mastodon feeds.
Decentralization is great until everyone wants to grab data from your #webserver
https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/06/mastodon_delays_fix_ddos/
Mastodon delays firm fix for link previews DDoSing sites

Decentralization is great until everyone wants to grab data from your web server

The Register
May 23, 2024 at 10:34amWeb
Show threadsplaMay 23, 2024
@BenjaminHCCarr this happens to all Activitypub microblogging softwares not only Mastodon.
Show thread3dcandyMay 23, 2024
@BenjaminHCCarr whilst I see Mastodon is being blamed I don't think it is - the original webserver should be better provisioned to cope in my opinion. Far too many websites these days have cut their hosting costs and are paying the price for poor performance. It's like being transported back 15 years