Post AlOGiPRw3Kl1HdiJrk by coffeegeek@flipboard.social
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(DIR) Post #AlOGiOAsnFWTKSjBeC by coffeegeek@flipboard.social
2024-08-26T21:26:33Z
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So some bad news regarding our account here on Mastodon and the #Fediverse I'm going to have to suspend, at least for now, posting any links to content on our website on this platform. The #MastoDdos effect is only getting worse, and it now brings our website down for a solid 5 to 7 minutes everytime I post a URL. We've tried to fix this on our end, without any real luck. Caching, Cloudfare, etc etc. None of it works. What I'll do instead is post links to our Threads account when new content is posted on our website. A bit of a weird fix, but until the infrastructure in the fediverse evolves to deal with this growing problem, I can't have our website go down that often. It has further unintended side effects (like harming our SEO ranking).Of course, I'll still be participating here daily on coffee subjects!
(DIR) Post #AlOGiPRw3Kl1HdiJrk by coffeegeek@flipboard.social
2024-08-26T21:33:42Z
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Actually, I can still post content links here to CoffeeGeek, but I have to be smart about it: I have to post them as links, and also attach a photo to my post, so that the link doesn't trigger a card call to our website.So, going forward (for now at least), when we do post new content on CoffeeGeek, I will post the link here, but also attach a photo related to the story. The link should still work, but not bombard our website from 1000s of instances looking for a card.
(DIR) Post #AlOGucVfJyXNGQHUHI by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-27T11:13:58Z
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@coffeegeek Maybe this is what happened to X Spaces when they claimed they had a DDOS attack last week for the terrible interview. Isn't Truth Social just a silo's mastodon server with an ugly wrapper?
(DIR) Post #AlOHMVElxBMkoifuUa by sabik@rants.au
2024-08-27T11:19:00Z
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@futurebird @coffeegeek AIUI the problem is that each federated server fetches a preview separately, so it wouldn't happen with a non-federated Mastodon server
(DIR) Post #AlOHjihw2MipFsO1EO by BassRck5000@mastodon.social
2024-08-27T11:23:04Z
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@futurebird @coffeegeek https://www.vice.com/en/article/truth-social-is-mastodon-trump/
(DIR) Post #AlOHpx8tHXddlFxzpw by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-27T11:24:21Z
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@gabboman @coffeegeek Ah, then I can't be right about that being the cause. I don't know much about this DDOS issue, thanks.