Jürgen Hubert on Nostr: Here is an interesting tidbit on how often the #Fediverse calls up websites. I'd like ...
Here is an interesting tidbit on how often the #Fediverse calls up websites.
I'd like to think that I have a fairly popular account - as of this writing, I have 3,730 followers.
About 3.5 hours, I posted a link to a wiki page of mine. So far, this post has received 3 favorites.
I just checked the logs of my website. And this single link has triggered 1,103 "GET" requests to that wiki page. The vast majority seems to be from different Fediverse instances - #Mastodon and otherwise - as the post propagated from server to server, and each instance tries to get information for a preview card.
I do not have much experience with website administration, so I don't know if 1,103 requests (almost all of which seem to have occurred within a few minutes of the initial posting) count as "a lot".
But it might be worth remembering when considering the resources the Fediverse consumes.
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