Aral Balkan, 2022-11-09:
Is the fediverse about to get Fryed? (Or, “Why every toot is also a potential denial of service attack”)Every time I post something that gets lots of engagement, I essentially end up carrying out a denial of service attack on myself. What does this say about the design of Mastodon and ActivityPub and the future of the fediverse?
This is outside of my knowledge zone. I know @
🐦 💯 Waitman Gobble has done some experiments regarding the massive amount of traffic produced by one post. Is this an ActivityPub flaw, or a Mastodon flaw, or what? Do we have the same issues in the Hubzilla/Streams corner of the Fediverse? Can instance admins or individual users do anything to mitigate these problems?