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I was there was a workaround for the Mastodon DDoS by link preview issue. (social.beaware.live)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

#Mastodon #Fedi #Fediverse

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

@[email protected] @[email protected] Yes this is possible and I think it's been discussed as a solution. The concern, last time I was reading about it, is that malevolent servers could poison a link preview and send fake images along with the url (the argument against this is you're already 'trusting' the server if you're federating with them, so that trust should extend to link previews)

Another proposed solution was just having servers wait a random amount of time before fetching the link preview so not every server is requesting the preview at the same time