https://news.itsfoss.com/mastodon-link-problem/
Please Donโt Share Our Links on Mastodon: Hereโs Why!We need to talk about this problem. Should Mastodon step up?
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I am talking about Mastodon's ability to DDoS a website ๐ฃ And, our sites, It's FOSS News, and It's FOSS, are some of the sites being affected by the issue.
When you share a link on Mastodon, a link preview is generated for it, right?
With Mastodon being a federated platform (a part of the Fediverse), the request to generate a link preview is not generated by just one Mastodon instance. There are many instances connected to it who also initiate requests for the content almost immediately.
And, this "fediverse effect" increases the load on the website's server in a big way.
(not using
mastodon i could share the link without generating a preview.)