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?
@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