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The Fediverse has a DDoS problem

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The Fediverse has a DDoS problem

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Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

The Fediverse has a DDoS problem | aumetra's Scribbles

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The Fediverse has a problem with accidentally DDoS-ing remote service. What can we do about it?

I was recommended to share this article I wrote a few days ago on here, too; so here we are!

The TL;DR is “link embed fetching communes” as a partial “fix” to the issue (pretty buzzwordy, sorry for that)

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It’s not centralization if not everyone trusts the same server, which there is no obligation to

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