I couldn’t understand the scale of this “fediverse effect”.
There is this quote:
> ” making for a traffic amplification of 36704:1”
Does it mean that posting a link on Mastodon generates 36704 requests to that URL?
There is this quote:
> ” making for a traffic amplification of 36704:1”
Does it mean that posting a link on Mastodon generates 36704 requests to that URL?
But for popular accounts (15k followers as in this case) will definitely spread the link to thousands of instances instantly and cause thousands of individual GET requests.
It’s fun to tail access.log and see it happen in real time.
No, it's a ratio of bytes for traffic . They're counting size of 1 request to post to Mastodon "a single roughly ~3KB POST", vs the total size of content served from GETing the url in that post.
IDK how valid this metric is, but that's what they're saying.
I'm not saying that this is the optimal framing, but that's what they were going for: talking about this, correctly or not, as a de facto DDOS.
1) https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2022/05/23/ana...