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