So some bad news regarding our account here on Mastodon and the #Fediverse
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JL Johnson :veri_mast:replied to CoffeeGeek last edited by
@coffeegeek oh no what a bummer. We need more brands like yours on the fedi. Is this a flipboard related I haven’t heard of this affecting others. @Gargron is this a thing on your radar?
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Actually, I can still post content links here to CoffeeGeek, but I have to be smart about it: I have to post them as links, and also attach a photo to my post, so that the link doesn't trigger a card call to our website.
So, going forward (for now at least), when we do post new content on CoffeeGeek, I will post the link here, but also attach a photo related to the story. The link should still work, but not bombard our website from 1000s of instances looking for a card.
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@coffeegeek Can you explain? This is the first I've heard of it.
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@fuzzychef https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40222067 (click the top link to get to the referenced article)
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@coffeegeek Suggestion: include a link to your posts in a way that doesn't generate a preview, like an incomplete URL. That still lets readers follow-up, without continuing the problem.
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@fuzzychef Heh - that was in my followup post:
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BeAware :fediverse:replied to CoffeeGeek last edited by
@coffeegeek this doesn't work, unfortunately. The software still requests the link preview.
I've seen it tested in real time and saw the linked site go down immediately.️
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@coffeegeek I replied the last time you mentioned this on how to solve this issue for a WordPress site, did you happen to see it?
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@dustinrue I think so. Last time around, I sent several proposed solutions to our dev and the site host; some were implemented, (IIRC, we couldn't implement one thing) and not remedied.
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@dustinrue The only real solution is for the federated systems to change how they call cards.
I suspect Youtube is now blocking many instances from rendering previews (they block them on flipboard.social, for example) for a similar reason : too much hammering traffic.