So some bad news regarding our account here on Mastodon and the #Fediverse
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So some bad news regarding our account here on Mastodon and the #Fediverse
I'm going to have to suspend, at least for now, posting any links to content on our website on this platform. The #MastoDdos effect is only getting worse, and it now brings our website down for a solid 5 to 7 minutes everytime I post a URL. We've tried to fix this on our end, without any real luck. Caching, Cloudfare, etc etc. None of it works.
What I'll do instead is post links to our Threads account when new content is posted on our website. A bit of a weird fix, but until the infrastructure in the fediverse evolves to deal with this growing problem, I can't have our website go down that often. It has further unintended side effects (like harming our SEO ranking).
Of course, I'll still be participating here daily on coffee subjects!
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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.