"The startling inefficiencies involved in how Mastodon distributes content have been on my mind for a long time."
- @nyquildotorg
This article by @aral is excellent. It's painful to read about all the job creation, sidekiq queues, artificial limits, delays, and costs involved with making a few thousand POST's to distribute a toot, being used to scanners like masscan or nmap blasting millions of requests per second with little memory/CPU.
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/