 As this worked for the Internet Archive, let’s try another one: Fediverse, do your magic ✨ 8 comments
 @JSharp1436 @renchap Yeah, they want to push me to Youtube and then they block me because of my adblocker. Well, the adblocker isn't coming down, Youtube guys. Guess I won't watch your shitty video.  What I heard when I first noticed it showing up was, because of the way a post to the fediverse propagates to multiple servers, YouTube was seeing multiple hits for the same URL and preview at once and it looked like a DDOS attack. Then instances had to create intermediary servers with generic previews to prevent whatever lockouts were triggered by the appearance of a DDOS attack.  @Chancerubbage @renchap @rmondello It sounds like a good solution would be to propane YT meta data with the post. Other servers can retire the data with some randomized timeout to prevent the appearance of ddos. Alternately a federated system could have a random server propagate refreshed data retained for a randomized interval. Then  @renchap The fact that it's an issue for some instances (probably smaller ones?) and not others lends credence to the DDOS mitigation theory. @renchap YouTube has been blocking all server-based anonymous access since August, I suspect there are no way back from this… I say those ML content crawler was to blame. |
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Yes, it's been like this now for a month or three.
But what's interesting is some instances can get the data and some can't. I've been trying to find a solution myself.
I assumed it might be YouTube trying to stop folks watching within Mastodon and avoiding their advertising? Just a guess.
Good luck.