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I was there was a workaround for the Mastodon DDoS by link preview issue.

Small publications can't have their links posted here because it can take their entire site down.

The fact that I could kill a small site for a few minutes just by posting a link, really really sucks.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

@[email protected] @[email protected] there is, but the issue could be...
I share a link to a site. My instance generates a preview card and caches it, then my post gets federated to 5k additional servers, but only the URL, not the cached preview card. So other instances generate their own preview cards and cache them.

Individual viewers are not necessarily creating extra traffic, but each instance is.