Could mastedon federate the link preview as well as the link?
Some OP advice to "get a damn CDN" seems to be a responce rather than a correction of the issue.
Even poorly designed websites shouldn't face DDoS scale access by a social network sharing a link. The social network should mitigate it's massive parallelization.
Some OP advice to "get a damn CDN" seems to be a responce rather than a correction of the issue.
Even poorly designed websites shouldn't face DDoS scale access by a social network sharing a link. The social network should mitigate it's massive parallelization.