Recent searches
Search options
Is the fediverse about to get Fryed? (Or, “Why every toot is also a potential denial of service attack”)
Aral Balkan · Is the fediverse about to get Fryed? (Or, “Why every toot is also a potential denial of service attack”)Every time I post something that gets lots of engagement, I essentially end up carrying out a denial of service attack on myself. What does this say about the design of Mastodon and ActivityPub and the future of the fediverse?
@aral I have to ask, how much of what you describe is intrinsic in the problem space, how much is intrinsic in the particulars of the design, and how much is intrinsic in the implementation of Mastodon in particular? Sidekiq seems a particularly poor choice to fire off 3000 tasks a few times an hour. Would different technology choices help, or is the problem space itself just inherently prone to this kind of scale problem?