Mastodawn

Androcat Jun 17, 2024

Anyone with insight into Mastodon code able to explain why my browser-based mastodon session is constantly doing requests, even after being #ratelimited, even though I am doing nothing at all?

I am getting over one request per second (resulting in a message popping up : Rate Limited: Please retry after xx:xx:00PM (i.e. the time interval starting at the next 5min).

Seems like I have only a short window to actually post something, before these garbage background requests eat up my allotted req/5min quota.

#mastohelp

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Block BigTech, Adelaide Jun 18, 2024

@androcat Yeah mastodon's constant fetches is a problem. Gnusocial, mitra, and epicyon are better in this area. A good way to stop a page from making requests is:

a)Ctrl+Shift+E brings up the network tab

b) click the little ban (Ø) symbol

c) type an asterisk (EDIT: one of these *) in the feild that pops up an hit enter. Done.

Happy non-ratelimited browsing!

@skye

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Androcat Jun 18, 2024

@adelaide_block_bigtech
First i need to do F12 to get devtools, then I can get the network tab.
The Ø button is "clear network log" at the top of the network page, and in the console the same symbol is used for "clear console".

Are you sure that's supposed to pop up a field?
@skye

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Block BigTech, Adelaide

@androcat @skye you might be using a different browser, for me in Tor browser the "clear" button is a trash bin icon, i only know browsers based on firefox that are fully liberated i don't know how others work, not even chromum, maybe someone else knows tho.