Post #3233604

2024-08-31 23:26 UTC

@nix@merveilles.town That seems like a misunderstanding of the infrastructure. Each fediverse server (at least ones powered by Mastodon) caches a copy of the media files to serve to their own users. The increase on bandwidth for the origin server is minimal, comparatively, since there's at most 20k servers, instead of millions of people.

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@mcc@mastodon.social 2024-09-01 00:56

@Gargron@mastodon.social @nix@merveilles.town Would you agree that Newgrounds has more to worry about if it becomes an activitypub *client* (because if users are receiving remote posts they might have to pay for locally cached images) than if it serves *out* of newgrounds to other activitypub servers?

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@orsinov@our.unknowing.dance 2024-09-01 09:45

@Gargron@mastodon.social @nix@merveilles.town single zser misskey instances don't always do that... But even in those instances, since the image is really only downloaded once or twice it's not really an impact Maybe large misskey instances with no caching would become an issue, even though it's rare... So detection/ip bans against something like that might be necessary. Like spam downloading of the same asset by AP Servers could be a firewall rule or smth.

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