Matt Godden on Nostr: Am I understanding this correctly, that by posting a link to my own website to ...
Am I understanding this correctly, that by posting a link to my own website to #Mastodon, I can #DDOS myself, because all the federated instances are getting their own link previews at the same time? I literally saw resource exceeded errors on my website in the minute after making a post.
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