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@SomaFMrusty@defcon.social That's the beauty of it, though -- if you want to make a small site fall over, just post a link to it *in a reply to me*.

This system is not a good system.

@KraftTea @SomaFMrusty@defcon.social
Here we go again.

"Everyone who replied with 'use a CDN' is really saying, 'I expect all web sites to be run by skilled and dedicated professionals, who deploy future-proofed technology stacks, so that my social network can be run by amateur hobbyists."

jwz.org/blog/2022/11/mastodon-

@jwz @SomaFMrusty@defcon.social I was actually implying that the work shouldn't have to be done on your end, but rather that there might be opportunities for things to be fetched only a few times, and distributed within clusters.

It wouldn't make sense to do it the other way. But the general idea of what it does stands.

jwz

@KraftTea @SomaFMrusty@defcon.social So you're suggesting a shared CDN that all the anarchic mastodon instances would share? That seems... fraught. Even discounting funding. Also it is effectively recentralization. My proposal is different, rather than caching a zillion loads how about transport it with the post and loading zero.

@jwz @SomaFMrusty@defcon.social I don't see why it would have to mean recentralization, as much as having some admins who would be willing to be spokes / regional hubs to a certain range of other sites.

Every large global social media site is essentially decentralized, in technologically meaningful ways that generally boost performance.

My comment re: Memcached was merely that yours was the kind of problem it solved. But if it can be solved efficiently in ways that don't drive users crazy, I'm all for it.