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Is the fediverse about to get Fryed? (Or, “Why every toot is also a potential denial of service attack”)
So when I do a post, my server queues up jobs to tell every subscriber.
Suppose that makes sense. They all gotta hear about it. But it feels pretty inefficient.
Seems like it should be possible to do something like the Bittorrent protocol and fire off a dozen jobs to a selection of servers asking them to pass the message onwards.
@pre (And every reply.)
I mean, of course, everthing is always a work in progress and hindsight is always 20/20. I just hope we can acknowledge some of the core design decisions that we take for granted that we’ve actually inherited from Big Tech and see how we can go forward differently. (Or at least apply social pressure where protocols and server designs might incentivise centralisation.)