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mekka okereke :verified:

@atomicpoet

I'm less concerned about Mastodon itself "scaling" and more concerned about it DDOS'ing tiny sites all over the internet. This problem is still getting worse.

Mastodon encourages a resurgence of blogging, but simultaneously can increase the technical burden of hosting a small blog.

I'm also not that worried about ActivityPub "inefficiency," because at some point, some working group is going to finish a spec for an updated ActivityPub, and servers are all going to slowly migrate.

8 Apr 2023 at 9:49 | Wall-to-wall | Open on hachyderm.io
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Chris Trottier

@mekkaokereke Now this is quite a valid concern, and something that has frustrated me at length.

I actually do wonder what will happen once there’s 100 million active users, and a site goes viral.

8 Apr 2023 at 10:00 | Open on mastodon.social
Enrique Barcelli

@atomicpoet @mekkaokereke

This is a good point. Each site fetches the posts from the original site, right? so the only 'efficiency' comes from multiple users in one instance sharing the same fetch.

There are about 23,000 instances at the moment and about 10,000 users.

Is it possible to model/simulate some scenarios for something going viral and the kind of burden they may put on different types of instances? 🤔

8 Apr 2023 at 12:35 | Open on acc4e.com
Tony Hoyle

@atomicpoet
If it's simply boosted a lot, not a lot.. the post gets spread around servers and the original site doesn't see much of a hit.

If it's a link to a site, getting buried is a risk that has existed forever.. partly why things like blogspot took off.
@mekkaokereke

8 Apr 2023 at 14:25 | Open on toot.hoyle.me.uk
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