Rusty Hodge [SomaFM] on Nostr: Wow, when I posted that MP3 "podcast" last night, 339 mastodon bots tried to download ...
Wow, when I posted that MP3 "podcast" last night, 339 mastodon bots tried to download it, with over 25mb/sec peak traffic. Most of them stopped after 200k but a few did more. It is a 20mb file.
Curious why Mastodon thinks it needs to pull down MP3 files?
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2024-11-27 18:10:02Event JSON
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