How does the Mastodon software deal with video uploads? Is their transcoding outsourced to eg. AWS, or does Mastodon handle this itself? How does it generally tackle the serving of larger assets?
@voxpelli Nah, literally just the Mastodon software project. Mastodon is processing (transcoding, and in some cases converting into GIFs) videos and I was wondering if it's doing that locally, or if it requires a dependency to a cloud service. (Answers so far indicate that it's doing it locally.)
@voxpelli I honestly have no idea - but I think it just does it for videos uploaded by local users, with clients fetching media attachments from the instances they originate from. (But I'm honestly wouldn't know – this is just from observing client behavior.)
@voxpelli I can't really imagine instances happily copying all video content - sometimes videos in federated posts don't load and the originating instance is blamed. But I might be misjudging, I haven't read up on Mastodon internals at all.
@hmans Could be that they are lazy fetching it or something
I was quite amazed to see issues like this be totally left to the implementers of #ActivityPub
Especially as #PubSubHubbub / #WebSub which #OStatus and other predecessors use (and the #IndieWeb still use) was specifically designed to avoid thundering herd problems that arise from a lot of subscribers all eagerly fetching content at once upon receiving a ping about new content
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