I have to stop posting active links to our content on Mastodon.
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@ludicity @coffeegeek I wonder if it would make sense to have a stripped down version of the page with only the information needed by the card on it (open graph and Twitter tags, oembed instructions) to be served to social media crawlers.
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I suggest using Cloudflare. It's free and works miracles. It will not break any site elements, a lot of the big sites use their service. It also protects against attacks. You will have to change the DNS settings so that CF is your provider.
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@normis We do. But we cannot use their full caching. It messes up all the dynamic content delivery and images on our website. Trust me, we've tried.
The problem remains how Mastodon does thousands and thousands of card calls within a few milliseconds everytime a URL is posted. They need to fix that.
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@oblomov @ludicity We cannot do that. The amount of work that would require, not only mentioning how it would completely destroy our efforts at SEO (love it or hate it).
The root problem isn't how complex our site or pages is. It's that everytime a high follower-count account on Mastodon, with followers across thousands of instances, posts a URL, that website gets hammerred with thousands of page call requests within a few milliseconds.
