Thanks for bringing this up. I think in general we need to work on optimisation of Activitypub and Threadiverse implementations of it.

There are two proposed solutions I have seen. I do not claim that this is exhaustive, just only limited to the proposals that I have stumbled across.

FASP - Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provider

The idea that mastodon has is to have a third-party service that does something like generate a link preview once and then share that to fediverse instances that need it. They have a whole spec they wrote up about these kinds of services that can be run to help out fediverse instances with different things like this, search, or discoverability. They call these FASPs - the repo with the spec is here.

I don’t yet know of any FASP that is live and running, so it is kind of a paper spec at the moment. I don’t do too much on the microblogging side of the fediverse though, so I very well could be wrong.

Federate link metadata and the post at the same time

This comes from an issue on PieFed’s repo. It is basically just an idea at this point, but it is a pretty basic one; have the originating instance fetch the link preview information and simply federate it out alongside the post itself.

@t54r4n1 although also correspondingly quite snaggable

I copied some of the video files and now I'm going home.

@davidgerard Boy am I glad I only ever use the web interface for settings I can’t access in a client…

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.

There's a copy of the print files for issue 7 of the AR magazine on here.

Likely there are copies of the print files for every issue on here, but Issue 7 is the one that I found when I searched "issue" and/or "pdf" so it's the only one I have right now.

This thing is so fucking weird, even by my standards.

It's supposed to be a music magazine. There are some album reviews and things, but then it ends with a 10 page explainer on Nietzsche, followed by a picture of one of our friends with the caption "probably not the ubermensch"

Then a blank page.

Then one that says "buy stuff from us so we can keep making things"

Then the back cover is a picture of a woman on an electric scooter in classic Victorian clothes captioned "probably the ubermensch"

... what?

@davidgerard My number 1 impression on first reload of the interface was "This is AI purple now"

@brennen toggles are most repairable dangit

@atax1a @dianshuo yeah they're FP-4 and at a pinch FP-8

A massive #TulipPoplar, #LiriodendronTulipifera at the #OregonStateCapitol for #ThickTrunkTuesday.

you're telling me this certificate was issued by an authority?

@theruran design is an evil cult.

@GrandTheftUrkel fair

i just assumed a client-to-server interaction, where the server is the larger circle, and didn't even think about perspective

Can you see everything? https://www.theverge.com/policy/1014687/fielder-holmes-you-can-see-everything