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@mcc I don't think the cost of sending a website and sending just the opengraph tags is significantly different for an accidental DDOS scenario. Any web server worth its salt running on a raspberry pi can handle a few hundred mastodon instances requesting a static page, the issue is people hosting their blog posts on horribly inefficient setups

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@mcc you can make non-static websites that don't stop working once a lot of requests come in. ancient php runners can handle it

@mcc yeah but then having to add a plugin so your WordPress doesn't shut down when someone posts a link on mastodon does feel like a bandaid fix

@mcc ultimately I prefer the fix where mastodon doesn't ddos people in the first place but I see your point

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