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>>aendru+(OP)
> 429 Too Many Requests

Aight, level with me: Is every mastodon server running on a Raspberry Pi?

>>NavinF+ma
Not really: hhttps://leah.is/posts/scaling-the-mastodon/ They just got 6 times the normal requests: https://chaos.social/@ordnung/110312089838674624

>>weglas+Be
unfortunately this is exactly why mastodon won't work

I already don't trust mastodon links because 9 times out of 10 they simply don't work. Everyone's tiny hobby server falls over when one post gets big, and obviously not everyone is going to scale their servers to support the load of a viral post that might happen once every 6 months and will be 100x their base load

>>shawab+9o
That is the benefit of centralization, the experience for the end user can be controlled completely. Maybe a Mastodon friendly web cache that anyone running a semi-serious instance could easily opt into (for a fee) is needed. As a hedge to keep your Raspberry Pie instance online if something goes viral.

As a community effort where no one is expecting to get rich it might work.