@sir i don't think it's a problem. the web is large now and webservers need to account for that, unless there's some specific bug that's causing things to get hit more than there are eyeballs
@sneak every time you post a link on mastodon, every instance it gets federated to will automatically fetch it to generate a link preview
@sir @sneak what would be the solution?
A centralised proxy? Previews fetched from their origin (and DDossing that)? Some distribution and mirrorring; and then how to avoid poisoning?
Honestly curious.
What about a separate p2p 'linkpreview' network? Such a project could even leverage some 'reward' system, not unlike filecoin, dat or storj. Mastodon, matrix, signal etc could then fetch previews there, instead of all implementing their own.