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  • SatyrSack@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Direct link to article:

    https://news.itsfoss.com/mastodon-link-problem/

    TL;DR:

    When you share a link on Mastodon, a link preview is generated for it, right?

    With Mastodon being a federated platform (a part of the Fediverse), the request to generate a link preview is not generated by just one Mastodon instance. There are many instances connected to it who also initiate requests for the content almost immediately.

    And, this “fediverse effect” increases the load on the website’s server in a big way.

    Does Lemmy not cause this issue? Other federated software was not mentioned in the article at all.

  • Handles@leminal.spaceEnglish
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    2 months ago

    There’s another reason I don’t share “It’s FOSS” links anywhere: this should have been a github issue but it’s turned into a clickbaity headline. Every othe article coming out of “It’s FOSS” is either low effort, sensationalist, or both.