@benchaotica@ajroach42@angiebaby There's currently ~11000 mastodon instances; federation itself takes time, so even if you had 11k followers each on their own instance ... is that really "DoS" territory?
On the flip side, do sites that can't handle (at most) 11k requests over "many minutes" already have a way to opt out of preview generation?
Also, "it's foss" takes 84 requests and 6.26MB (or "4 Dooms") to load, perhaps something can be done there too...