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The Fediverse has a problem with accidentally DDoS-ing remote service. What can we do about it?

I was recommended to share this article I wrote a few days ago on here, too; so here we are!

The TL;DR is “link embed fetching communes” as a partial “fix” to the issue (pretty buzzwordy, sorry for that)

  • andyburke
    16•8 months ago

    How is this not a caching issue on the linked server? Serving the same info up over and over from memory should be incredibly fast.

    Are their pages dynamic and filled with ads and stuff or something that makes this a problem?

    • chiisanaAEnglish
      18•8 months ago

      If you’ve skimmed over the original publication, it is actually worse: it is a non problem. Other users have pointed out already: ~100MB served over 5 minutes period is quite literally nothing for even one small VPS serving the content independently, let alone a site with CloudFlare in front like they claim to have.