[evil] certified kbitty vampire© on Nostr: talking with tfs, this also hit them, cuz their DB had to go through and delete stuff ...

talking with tfs, this also hit them, cuz their DB had to go through and delete stuff too. tho, since they didnt have to federate out the deletion requests, it didnt hit them as hard

sooo.... i guess large account deletions can cause fedi to come to a crawl

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woem.men: 100% CPU for ~6 minutes
woem.men: ~1 million+ deliveries
me: ??? wtf is going on, and why isnt the ratelimiter going off???

the reason: a user deleted their fedi account for mh reasons, and *key was federating the deletion requests EVERYWHERE all at once

btw, we reached out to the user to check on them. all seems oki
https://woem.men/files/a43d40c4-bfde-42e7-bc91-0fa16c3c29a1