Post B5cPemit9fsoxdSHfU by tastytea@very.tastytea.de
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 (DIR) Post #B5cMc1f0rU46YcdRLM by star@amazonawaws.com
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       don't mind me. just testing how links get crawled by instances themselves. bfl0.de/7zqSh
       
 (DIR) Post #B5cMhLq5GX08aWLwPo by star@amazonawaws.com
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       WOW, immediately after hitting "send", the 10 maximum allowed link uses were used up
       
 (DIR) Post #B5cMlWMy3WbWPDiqUS by star@amazonawaws.com
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       the fedi instances just immediately visit the linked URL, i guess for purposes of maybe embed generation?
       
 (DIR) Post #B5cMm2wsvWLfRslyuu by nyovaya@transfem.social
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       @star@fed.amazonawaws.com still has the urge to take a peek
       
 (DIR) Post #B5cOdH2vLM1ETOXgAK by timorl@social.wuatek.is
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       @star Afaik yeah, Mastodon was particularly aggressive about that. People are still periodically dunking on https://itsfoss.com/news/mastodon-link-problem/ . :blobfoxlaugh:
       
 (DIR) Post #B5cOds2VnqfrCpdNA0 by tastytea@very.tastytea.de
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       @star@fed.amazonawaws.com yeah for embeds, usually gets fetched as fast as the links come in and get cached for a while
       
 (DIR) Post #B5cPemit9fsoxdSHfU by tastytea@very.tastytea.de
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       @star@fed.amazonawaws.com also linking this gem in case you don't know it already ​:neocat_laugh_tears:​ https://itsfoss.com/news/mastodon-link-problem/ (TL;DR: ”our website can't handle 100-500 requests at once and it's the fediverse's fault“)