What happens when someone includes a link in a Mastodon post?

One of the side effects of Federation is that sharing a link widely unintentionally DDoSes the target, as every Mastodon server at once tries to grab a preview of that link.

It’s something that needs to get resolved, hopefully before we break too much.

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