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1. simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 03:09:34 JST simsa04

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   • Rysiekúr Memesson 🇺🇦
   I find the subheading "Mastodon: denial-of-service as a service?" gorgeous.
   • Rysiekúr Memesson 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 03:09:35 JST Rysiekúr Memesson 🇺🇦

     • Aral Balkan

     I was reading @aral 's blogpost about ActivityPub's scaling issues:
     https://ar.al/2022/11/09/is-the-fediverse-about-to-get-fryed-or-why-every-toot-is-also-a-potential-denial-of-service-attack/

     And that got me thinking: if the problem is that this post will generate one Sidekiq job *per server used by my followers*, would it not make sense to create "batch" Sidekiq jobs between popular servers that would put multiple actions in a single job?

     The overhead would go down. But I guess that would require a change in the spec.

     Also, yeah, we should use smaller instances.