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Please Don't Share Our Links on Mastodon
We need to talk about this problem. Should Mastodon step up?
Whether it is about ignoring Elon Musk's mood swings on X (or formerly Twitter) or refusing to be a part of Mark Zuckerberg's data points, Mastodon has proved to be an impressive open-source social media platform. And, as a result, we get affected for a couple of minutes in a day, for readers to encounter 504 Gateway Timeout error or the webpage being unresponsive for a few seconds, whenever a link is shared on mastodon.social instance (primarily). Furthermore, when a user with a huge following list or having connections to a bigger network of instances boosts that post, the request to the site is amplified again, as explained by Chris Partridge, a security engineer.
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