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Please Donโt Share Our Links on Mastodon: Hereโs Why!
We need to talk about this problem. Should Mastodon step up?Ankush Das (It's FOSS News)
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Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐ง๐ฎ
in reply to It's FOSS • • •We have many many times your followers, often have posts massively shared, and never encountered a problem with it.
What are you server specs?
It's FOSS
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐ง๐ฎ • • •Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐ง๐ฎ
in reply to It's FOSS • • •Shtgaus
in reply to It's FOSS • • •Wow, that's tiny ๐คฏ (considering how popular your websites are)
Robb Knight
in reply to It's FOSS • • •Demiurg
in reply to It's FOSS • • •Kagan MacTane (he/him)
in reply to It's FOSS • • •I saw the headline and was prepared for some kind of entitled or otherwise stupid thing, but when I read what his reason was, I immediately became a convert. I understand his problem.
If main Mastodon doesn't fix this soon, maybe the upcoming hard fork can prioritize it? @are0h
chuang
in reply to It's FOSS • • •Etam
in reply to It's FOSS • • •I was involved once in hosting a Ghost blog and it was a must.
The Benefits of Microcaching with NGINX - NGINX
Web Team (NGINX, Inc.)Graham Lea
in reply to It's FOSS • • •It's FOSS
in reply to Graham Lea • • •@evolvable, why do you think an end user of an open source project should also be capable of fixing issues in the project's codebase?
By this logic, only developers should use an open source project or they should keep their mouths shut about the issues they encounter.
Graham Lea
in reply to It's FOSS • • •Luna Lactea
in reply to It's FOSS • • •Maho Pacheco ๐ฆ๐ป
in reply to It's FOSS • • •Latte macchiato
in reply to It's FOSS • • •Your page loads 6MB of data with uBlock Origin, 55MB without it and never stops piling on more and more. Seems to load some Google Ads garbage over and over again?
In the time between the first sentence and now, it loaded 30MB more data. Please fix your site.
Latte macchiato
in reply to Latte macchiato • • •johnteachestech
in reply to It's FOSS • • •If this were true, why are you yourself sharing it on Mastodon?
This is highly inaccurate misinformation, and I'm assuming the people whom work there know enough about computers to know this.
Please issue a correction and an apology.
It's FOSS
in reply to johnteachestech • • •@johnteachestech This is not an inaccurate misinformation.
You can check for yourself: aumetra.xyz/posts/the-fedi-ddoโฆ
jwz.org/blog/2022/11/mastodon-โฆ
github.com/simonw/simonwillisoโฆ
mstdn.social/@stux/11234618886โฆ
Traffic to /.well-known/webfinger is overwhelming Heroku ยท Issue #415 ยท simonw/simonwillisonblog
GitHubjohnteachestech
in reply to It's FOSS • • •Ok maybe its not misinformation that its a ddos threat for YOUR current servers, but to imply that it's a Mastodon issue and not an Its FOSS issue, is misleading and inaccurate.
A single website visitor from twitter could ddos a server if its weak enough, but Mastodon itself is even run on home lab servers.
If you want to republish the article as 'It's FOSS isn't willing to put a very small amount of effort into scaling to support FOSS social media users' then it would be accurate.
Look, It's FOSS is a great publication and people like it, myself included. Don't let one bad article tarnish the reputation.
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •Erlend Sogge Heggen
in reply to It's FOSS • • •XAG.info ๐ป๐ฑโ๏ธ๐ฅ
in reply to It's FOSS • • •It's FOSS
in reply to XAG.info ๐ป๐ฑโ๏ธ๐ฅ • • •@XAGinfo Not sharing our links is more of an expression than a literal meaning.
Can we stop people from sharing links, no, right? We don't have that power.
- Ankush
Neon
in reply to It's FOSS • • •If you don't want to get this traffic, stop offering up public link previews. You are the ones choosing to provide that metadata.
Someone has to pay for the bandwidth spent on distributing your link previews. You're the ones who monetise from clicks to your website- why don't you pay for it by getting better hosts?
But no, you write this rent-seeking post insisting that Mastodon instances (many of whom do this for free) should let you freeload your rich presence traffic. Shameful.
akiva
in reply to It's FOSS • • •phryk ๐ด
in reply to It's FOSS • • •I've noticed that when sharing links to my own website, but I thought this was more of a me-problem with the sites performance.
Will be interesting to see how that'll pan out with the new site I'm currently buildingโฆ
babble encat
in reply to It's FOSS • • •> a single roughly ~3KB POST to Mastodon caused servers to pull a bit of HTML andโฆ fuck, an image. In total, 114.7 MB of data was requested from my site in just under five minutes - making for a traffic amplification of 36704:1.
Gorg, that's how URLs work