@gamingonlinux Sorry, didn’t mean to be mean. I was...

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@gamingonlinux Sorry, didn’t mean to be mean. I was concerned that you were using your platform to show that this isn’t a problem without understanding what the problem is.

When a link is posted on an account that’s federated to a lot of instances, it gets accessed many times all at once to generate link previews. That means you should see very short bursts of traffic, and that can be enough to cause requests to queue up and possibly time out or get rejected. Hope that helps

Like 2 May at 13:14 | Wall-to-wall | Open on jorts.horse

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Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

@grampajoe I've never said it isn't a real problem that exists, I just wanted to do a basic test for myself to see and it was fine, nothing more

2 May at 13:52 | Open on mastodon.social

Grampa

@gamingonlinux I guess I’m trying to say it might not have been fine, because it might not show up as a high load average. If you have server logs (especially proxy logs e.g. nginx) from the time you posted the link, you might see what I’m talking about. The concern I have is that people will see this and think it’s evidence there isn’t a problem given the reach your posts are getting.

2 May at 14:22 | Open on jorts.horse