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A good old fashioned slash dotting on a self hosted server. Chill dude.

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Same here. Is this some feature of Mastodon?

I smell some anti-herd "feature" where user instance never saw gets mandatory timeout to avoid site being fucked every time something on it gets popular.

... except whoever wrote it fucked up.

Somewhat ironic that an article about high-performance networking is down.

At first it just said "site not found" and then it reloaded normal for me on firefox mobile (on android). Once it reloaded, I found it nicer to read, than a Twitter thread, but if I want to publish something, I would not find that tolerable. Not loading is a clear signal it might work later, but showing a "content does not exist" tells me as a user to go somewhere else.

> Once it reloaded, I found it nicer to read, than a Twitter thread, but if I want to publish something, I would not find that tolerable.

This is perfect example of "it should've been just a blog post". Kinda shame Mastodon repeats same Twitter failures, instead of just giving an option for long format content. I mean, it is nicer than Twitter formatting-wise but that's a low bar

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