I love how people are making this a Mastodon demon, and maybe there should be a Mastodon fix, but complaining about Mastodon because your public publishing platform can't handle up to 25K page hits randomized in a short minute or so, seems more on you & not the system getting the content
If these were deliberate users coming to view/read their link, it would be fixed by the complainers in an hour or so permanently
