a1ba,
@a1ba@suya.place avatar
drq,
@drq@mastodon.ml avatar

@a1ba oh noes, our site is going down, but it's not because our backend is shit, it's because mastodon bad.

MagicLike,
@MagicLike@mstdn.social avatar

@a1ba I love the Streisand Effect

a1ba,
@a1ba@suya.place avatar

@MagicLike Streisand effect is different, I think

MagicLike,
@MagicLike@mstdn.social avatar

@a1ba well I think it at least oartially applies here: itsfoss notices a problem and could fix it by shutting up and beefing up some if their servers or tweak a few settings. Instead they write an article basically saying "this is a huge problem don't do it again". And the internet does it's thing and does it again and again and again, but at a larger capacity

MagicLike,
@MagicLike@mstdn.social avatar

@a1ba if they would have shut up, the amount of shared links wouldn't be as high as it is now

a1ba,
@a1ba@suya.place avatar

@MagicLike or that was intentional :3c

MagicLike,
@MagicLike@mstdn.social avatar

@a1ba well it would be an extremely smart move :neocat_3c:

tk,
@tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com avatar

@a1ba @Rocc Reminds me of "Slashdotting" from back in the day. :blobfoxgoogly:

a1ba,
@a1ba@suya.place avatar

@tk @Rocc true, there was such term! Also called slashdot-effect.

Rocc,

@a1ba @tk hey stop. I don't want to go back to the 00s I did it once and it was kinda wack

slash,
@slash@pl.starnix.network avatar

@Rocc @tk @a1ba there was some fun stuff too. I still remember when the message board I lurked for anime torrents had 1 mod send another a meatball parm sandwich internationally through the mail because they kept complaining about being hungry. It became a celebrated thread with daily photo updates as we all waited in anticipation.

The can of root beer turned out edible, at least.

tk,
@tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com avatar

@slash @Rocc @a1ba Wait, he ate the can? Is he a goat? :blobfoxmlem:

slash,
@slash@pl.starnix.network avatar

@tk @Rocc @a1ba he presented the sandwich to his cat, who tentatively tried a bit of it that hadn't gone green yet, and then he drank the root beer. I don't remember if he recycled the can or not, but he probably didn't have the chops to chew through it.

kura,

@a1ba @tk @Rocc hackernews calls it the hug of death.

they kill websites all the time too

a1ba,
@a1ba@suya.place avatar

@kura @tk @Rocc I just wonder how their website don't get killed all the time by usual requests then.

tk,
@tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com avatar

@a1ba @Rocc @kura Maybe they didn't get that much traffic before. :blobfoxmlem:

kura,

@tk @a1ba @Rocc MEO

Mastodon engine optimization ™

you heard it here first

tk,
@tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com avatar

@kura @a1ba @Rocc For mastochists, by mastochists. :ablobfoxhyper:

a1ba,
@a1ba@suya.place avatar

@kura @Rocc @tk or maybe they are so irrelevant, they only get automated requests :KEKW:

kaia,
@kaia@brotka.st avatar

@a1ba the instances should not make a request to the URL when they receive it. why should they? they should not make any request to the target at all.

a1ba,
@a1ba@suya.place avatar

@kaia I think a sensible website should also be able to handle few thousands requests, or how many instances (that do fetch oembed thing) there are

kaia,
@kaia@brotka.st avatar

@a1ba true. it's weird that despite cloudflare they get this

affine,
@affine@yourwalls.today avatar

@kaia @a1ba it's about link previews

affine,
@affine@yourwalls.today avatar

@kaia @a1ba And anyway, they said Mastodon, not Akkoma. We're not doing anything wrong :senkoapprove:

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