I can't stop thinking about the huge amount of HTTP requests that mastodon performs just to federate this post.
On the project I work we are always trying to limit the amount of requests from UI to backend even when gRPC is the bus.
Take an account with 100k followers, federating with multiple instances, a simple shitpost would require thousands of HTTP posts.
Is the Fediverse consuming too much energy and resources?
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2024-04-29 21:02:46
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