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Is Mastodon's Link-Previewing Overloading Servers?
The blog Its FOSS has 15,000 followers for its Mastodon account — which they think is causing problems: 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 ...
And other blogs also reported the same issue over a year ago — including software developer Michael Nordmeyer and legendary Netscape programmer Jamie Zawinski. And back in 2022, security engineer Chris Partridge wrote:[A] single roughly ~3KB POST to Mastodon caused servers to pull a bit of HTML and... an image. They also state their opinion that the issue "should have been prioritized for a faster fix... Don't you think as a community-powered, open-source project, it should be possible to attend to a long-standing bug, as serious as this one?"
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