@davidgerard *frantic sweaty typing gif*

I shared a link from NPR Tiny Desk but there was no image preview or video embed. After investigating this I learned that when you do that, each instance picks up the link and individually retrieves the link preview nearly simultaneously. For gargantuan sites like YT or Reddit, this is a trivial amount of traffic and not a problem, but for smaller sites like NPR this results in a sort of botnet DDOS attack on the site’s servers. More here. Another example here . For that reason, NPR has blocked Fediverse servers like Mastodon.

I have experienced this on my personal server as well (DDOS), but at the time didn’t know why, exactly.

This isn’t the end of the world, but certainly is not great and hurts engagement with the content. Is there a solution for this? Perhaps using some sort of webtorrent service like PeerTube where they just fetch the information from another fediverse server instead of the source server? Maybe fetching embeds client-side? At least that would stagger the requests.

@grumpybozo the thing about Canada is you can see a doctor but that does not mean you can see a doctor the same day

Thought all you moss lovers might get a kick out of the mineral ‘pyromorphite’
Photo taken at the Natural History Museum in London
#mineralogy x #Mosstodon
#geology

Edited for typo

Meow #cat

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@jepyang we emit IR from our eyes (ok and everywhere else) so sort of technically relatively we do.

Daytona, which is building cloud infrastructure for AI agents, raised a $60M Series B led by FirstMark at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $91M (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)

https://fortune.com/2026/10/20/daytona-startup-building-the-agentic-cloud-valued-at-1-billion-in-latest-funding-round/
http://www.techmeme.com/261020/p27#a261020p27

@estelle The only violence in France that concerns me is the violence being committed by the state against the citizens who tolerate the state's continued existence.