“You always said that any one of us could challenge you, Butch.”

“Well, that’s ’cause I figured no one would do it!”

https://youtu.be/w9KBOhPXhds

So we need people to just mass post links to bad websites, is what you’re saying.

i’m feeling less ambivalent about those reddit repost bots for a moment

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.

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So we did a little thing.

@RosannaSibora

@Gina @_elena

i have a great talk on the social science of 'diversity' i would love to give there

what's more weird than encountering a wild tampon mushroom? finding it next to, uhhh... ummm...

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