Sigh.

The MastoDDos effect is only getting worse.

At this point, we may have to block all links to CG from Mastodon. Five times today our site's gone down because of urls posted by popular fediverse accounts.

This is possibly the worst thing about Mastodon and the fediverse.

@coffeegeek any caching would help? If the problem is incoming requests, that seems like a natural path for improvement (regardless of the source of the traffic), though I am sure you have thought of this too

@imrehg

Heh. Everytime I post about this, caching is asked about.

a) we can't cache certain things on the website, because of how we serve our internal ads. I've spent literally dozens and dozens of paid tech hours with my WP developer and a third party to make it work. I'm not spending another dime

b) we shouldn't HAVE to cache through hoops and whistles just to deal with a defect in how mastodon is structured

This is 1000% a problem with Mastodon, and it's up to the powers that be to fix it. If someone one with 10K+ followers posts a URL for a website, that website gets flooded with thousands and thousands of card requests within milliseconds, often bringing the site to a crawl or a halt. It's so bad, big sites like Youtube, etc no longer serve cards to the fediverse - atleast to the big main servers.