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The Fediverse has a problem with accidentally DDoS-ing remote service. What can we do about it?

I was recommended to share this article I wrote a few days ago on here, too; so here we are!

The TL;DR is “link embed fetching communes” as a partial “fix” to the issue (pretty buzzwordy, sorry for that)

  • Rimu@piefed.social
    2·
    6 months ago

    Link previews for content from untrusted instances could still be generated just as they are now.

    The centralisation that has happened is a separate issue.