"Federation" now apparently means "DDoS yourself." Every time I do a new blog post, within a second I have over a thousand simultaneous hits of that URL on my web server from unique IPs. Load goes over 100, and mariadb stops responding. The server is basically unusable for 30 to 60 seconds until the stampede of Mastodons slows down. Presumably each of those IPs is an instance, none of which ...

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