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QubitN@lemmy.world
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TIL the fediverse basically DDOS's sites when you share a link.
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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Krono@lemmy.today
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Name just one. I’ve looked, hard, and I cannot find a single one. To clarify I’m talking like a top 20 instances thing here, or even top 50.
Maybe there’s a language barrier here, but I cannot seem to understand the precise details of what you are saying, which obscures my reception of your overall point.
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Blurry Moon
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@yonle reminds me i need a haircut
🚨 A heads-up for anyone running #WordPress, #Moodle, #Nextcloud or other PHP-based services.
PHP has confirmed two critical vulnerabilities, both rated 9.2/10. Fixes are scheduled for today, 21 October, at 14:00 UTC.
Prepare to patch PHP, not just your applications. CERT-EU advises considering temporary isolation of public-facing services if prompt patching isn't possible.
It sounds pretty bad. Affected versions are not yet confirmed but I've heard 5.4+
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Elon Musk last week ordered the slowdown of a military-grade version of SpaceX's Starlink that Ukraine relies on, the Wall Street Journal reported...
Musk and US President Donald Trump discussed the Starlink decision in a call soon after the slowdown became public... the two had also discussed the matter prior to the decision to throttle Starlink.
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