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Is the fediverse about to get Fryed? (Or, “Why every toot is also a potential denial of service attack”)
Aral Balkan · Is the fediverse about to get Fryed? (Or, “Why every toot is also a potential denial of service attack”)Every time I post something that gets lots of engagement, I essentially end up carrying out a denial of service attack on myself. What does this say about the design of Mastodon and ActivityPub and the future of the fediverse?
@aral @stephenfry @gretathunberg extremely new here, what is fediverse?
@TallBaldDesi It’s a network of people who communicate with each other using a protocol called ActivityPub. We’re doing it right now as we have this conversation. When you wrote your question, your Mastodon server used the ActivityPub protocol to find me and send it to me. My server (which could be running Mastodon or any other piece of software that runs the ActivityPub protocol) would do the same to get my message to you. A protocol is just a set of rules for communicating that we agree on.
@aral oh that's cool! Thanks for explaining 