Is the fediverse about to get Fryed? (Or, “Why every toot is also a potential denial of service attack”)
#fediverse #mastodon #stephenFry #gretaThunberg #smallTech #smallWeb
Me, keeping an eye on my task queue as a conversation starts on my latest post 👀
I should probably stop replying to people now, shouldn’t I?
But I won’t!
I WILL NOT LIVE IN FEAR!
@aral have you considered using pleroma instead? It's supposedly much less resource intensive.
I guess migrating the data would be a pain if you want to keep your toots
@noeldemartin @aral I'm still in the process of setting up my instance-of-one (I'm just slow, it doesn't seem complicated) but I don't have the kind of follow(er/ing) counts that I will be able to say much about performance. Especially since I never ran a mastodon instance
@martijn @aral I also have a similar situation. I've been running my instance-of-one and I haven't had any performance issues. But of course, I know that's because I don't have that many connections.
So when I read @aral's post I found it very interesting, and I wonder if he's got any thoughts on pleroma or other projects. After all, that's one of the nice things about the fediverse. Different use-cases can leverage different implementations instead of having a one-size-fits-all solution.
