I am guessing, but AFAIK reading requires the Mastodon instance you are on to mirror all the content as well. But why those twitter relays are especially bad is not so clear to me either as I never used those.
this post was submitted on 08 May 2022
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Yes, I've been explained just in this way, that every content from another instance is mirrored on the one I'm on. I always thought that posts from other instances were "empty shells" calling original server for the content. I think this is a big problem, from a certain point of view.
I don't see why it would be different than reading posts from other mastodon instances.
Do you mean shut down on the Twitter side? I can imagine that twitter applies rate-limiting and intervenes if it is only one-way traffic.
No, I meant that I thought the Birdsitelive instance went down, for example due to saturation.