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I want to do a test on how much traffic and resources the Mastodon embed takes on my server, so boost this plz

Edit: *all done, you can stop sharing now lol*

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/steam-deck-most-played-for-april-2024-has-plenty-of-fallout/


Steam Deck most played for April 2024 has plenty of Fallout

Valve have revealed the most played Steam Deck games for April 2024, and to no surprise you've all be playing a whole lot of Fallout haven't you? Yes you have.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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Break me you cowards
Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ
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Well nearly 100 boosts and it's done practically nothing, interesting.
RDN
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Were you testing because of today's post on itsfoss.org saying "Please don't boost this on Mastodon"?
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@rdnielsen yes, and so far from this post being multiple times more popular than the majority of their posts.... there's literally no issue
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Julian Fietkau
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@rdnielsen The "Mastodon effect" is a real thing, but its impact will depend heavily on how a site is set up. I'm surprised a news site would struggle with it.

Discussion on the Mastodon GitHub here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/23662 A fix seems to be currently planned for 4.4.0.


Reduce load of preview fetching on third-party servers ยท Issue #23662 ยท mastodon/mastodon

Steps to reproduce the problem Posting an image on Mastodon causes hundreds or thousands of federated servers to fetch the preview details all at once, causing a high load for the target server and...
GitHub
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jwz
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@julian Do you have a link for what their proposed fix is? It's not obvious to me what they're planning, from that GitHub page.
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Julian Fietkau
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@jwz I too only know what's in that GitHub discussion, i.e. that Mastodon's solution will presumably be one of these https://gist.github.com/renchap/3ae0df45b7b4534f98a8055d91d52186 or a mixture of them. For the version number I'm going by the latest milestone marker. If the Mastodon team has more internal progress on this, I'm not privy to it.

Mastodon link previews draft.md

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Gabe Kangas
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At this point Iโ€™m more interested in hearing what that proposed fix is, as well. This should be public discourse. Mastodon is not the only Fediverse microblogging software that exists, so even if Mastodon were to put in a change, thereโ€™s a ton of other services out there that arenโ€™t Mastodon that will still be doing what theyโ€™re doing now. Everyone needs to be in on this conversation, and get on the same page if the problem is to go away.
Rudi (ryjelsum)
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for what it's worth i grepped through my webserver's access logs for my static blog out of curiosity earlier today due to this particular 'discourse'

mastodon useragent had just under 40k entries while useragents for other fedi software were nonzero but none was above 50 entries and combined probably about 100 entries total. out of 50k total entries. there's definitely something mastodon is doing differently than other fedi software when it comes to how they treat external links. mind you, my situation is mostly link verification rather than previews but it seems to be similar behavior

either that, or all the other fedi software is using some different useragents that don't line up with the name of the software.. but i kinda put out an ask about that privately earlier today if that's the case for other fedi software (or if other fedi software uses mastodon useragent for external crawling for some reason) and didn't really get anyone telling me anything that violated my assumptions

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Julian Fietkau
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@rudi AFAIK that's more entries than there are (known) Mastodon instances. Is that 40k within less than two weeks, accessing the same URL? Definitely strange if so.

@box464 looked at the preview card generation behavior last year (https://box464.com/posts/mastodon-preview-cards/) and conjectured that a page may be accessed repeatedly if it has OpenGraph tags, but not an OpenGraph image. That doesn't appear to apply to your blog though.

@gabek @jwz


Understanding Mastodon Preview Card Display Logic

Ever wondered why some links you post to Mastodon show a nicely formatted preview card, but others donโ€™t? It can seem random, even showing differently from app to app.
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silverwizard
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@Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ @RDN yeah, I'm not sure how a modern website can't handle a few hundred page loads a second. Feels like a them problem.
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Fritzy ๐ŸŒฏ
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they didn't describe anything that should make a static site sweat at all. The scale they described is laughable. Their chokepoint is probably some overburdened and optimized comment database or something.
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@Fritzy ๐ŸŒฏ @Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ They do have live Mastodon comments on their page. I will not dig deeper to see if there is anything of generated server-side.

The mentioned a CDN, but maybe that's media only and the page is live and dynamic.

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