Alan Langford on Nostr: nprofile1q…q6mre There's no security risk. Really it's just a matter of ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq8lruq0rr86hpfzurt45fl2s5rlns665y7sxjxjw88juv469jqs8s8q6mre (nprofile…6mre) There's no security risk. Really it's just a matter of distinguishing between for real page views vs. "page previews". When you put a link in your post, other instances pull a copy of it up, in part to validate it, in part to see if there's a feature image it can stick into the feed. That's a good thing. The difference to something central like Facebook is they'll only pull it once, then share the image across servers in their data centre. In a federated service, each server needs to do that fetch, so we see a lot of traffic.

I have a front end to my site that blocks all sorts of stuff, particularly aimed at the AI scrapers, but also a wide swath of bad actors.

That filter explicitly allows Mastodon and it's variants so people can see my posts.