Is the Fediverse about to get Fryed?

Posted by boyter on Thursday December 22, 2022 @05:34AM
from the ar.al dept.

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/

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Re:Is the Fediverse about to get Fryed? by asherah on Thursday December 22, 2022 @11:05AM (#34094790)

this seems like an architectural problem with fedi itself; considering the amount of high-follower-count (>10k) people on twitter or instagram or other places, if everyone moved to fedi, would we constantly be having an infinite ddos? it feels extremely inefficient as a system

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Re:Is the Fediverse about to get Fryed? by saurik on Saturday December 24, 2022 @02:51PM (#34120461)

> Then, for each reply you receive to that post, 3K jobs are created, so your followers can see that reply without leaving their server or looking at your profile.

I don't see why this is required: instead of pushing it, why not have the other side maintain a cache and pull it? The UI here seems entirely unrelated to the architecture.

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