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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 02-Feb-2023 08:54:10 JST Aral Balkan

   You think Mastodon.social getting denial of service attacked is something? I just denial of service attacked myself again.

   If you see this, it’ll mean the Sidekiq queue has likely cleared. The last post I made three hours ago hasn’t gone through yet.

   Something tells me there should be a different queue for posts you make, no?

   ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

   (If you’re wondering what I’m talking about, read this, about the last time it happened: https://ar.al/2022/11/09/is-the-fediverse-about-to-get-fryed-or-why-every-toot-is-also-a-potential-denial-of-service-attack/)

   #nonDistributedDenialOfServiceAttack

   • Adam Fourney (adam@hci.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Feb-2023 15:24:29 JST Adam Fourney

     in reply to

     @aral If the problem is that your 22k followers spawn 3k jobs per interaction, wouldn’t smaller instances make the problem worse? If you follow this decentralization to its conclusion, won’t every interaction spawn 22k jobs?

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 02-Feb-2023 15:24:29 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • Adam Fourney

     @adam Yep. The point is that the technical design of Mastodon/ActivityPub favours centralisation. It is designed around Big Tech principles and thus inherits its scaling characteristics and success criteria. This is the exact same design flaw that saw the Big Web coalesce into a handful of trillion-dollar monopolies. The only way of slowing this down I see is social pressure but that will likely only go so far even if exerted. This is why I’m working on the #SmallWeb as a potential alternative.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 02-Feb-2023 15:58:57 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • Michael
     • Masto.host

     @michael Ooh, this is exactly what I meant, yes. @mastohost Hugo, can we implement this? It would solve my problem completely.

     Basically, I wouldn’t be prevented from my new posts being seen until all the replies, etc., have been delivered.

   • Michael (michael@mstdn.thms.uk)'s status on Thursday, 02-Feb-2023 15:58:58 JST Michael

     in reply to

     @aral

     “Something tells me there should be a different queue for posts you make, no?”

     There sort of is, on a single user instance: the push queue will deal only with your posts.

     You can split this out into its own worker, and then new posts you write will be pushed to other servers separately from other stuff.

     I mentioned this in my blog post under the heading ‘Sidekiq opitimsation’ here https://blog.thms.uk/2023/01/setting-up-mastodon

     (Unless of course that isn’t what you meant?)