I may have hug-of-death'd this site
anyone know of a site that can let me create a view counter and plot views over time? I want to see how many instances auto-ping a link and in how short a time
@xenon @SuricrasiaOnline i think mastodon waits a random amount of time between 0 and 60 seconds before fetching links nowadays, which is supposed to spread the load
it used to be worse
@SuricrasiaOnline if you want i can check if i have logging set up properly for haha.business in a few minutes and you could link that, then i can just pull the data
@iliana gonna post it!
@iliana wait fuck I misread, forgot to wait for you to setup logging >_<
@SuricrasiaOnline oh i mean i SHOULD have logging set up. let's find out
@SuricrasiaOnline sorry was making breakfast lmao
anyway yep we got it. gonna have some coffee and then poke at the data
@SuricrasiaOnline holy shit that is so many requests so instantaneously. stand by i will need to anonymize this a bit
@SuricrasiaOnline can i write a blog post about this data lmao
@iliana @SuricrasiaOnline ... so this is from the fricken opengraph fetching, that could've instead happened *once* on the originating instance before federating out? 
aka "url shortener"
@SuricrasiaOnline oh, we've seen that happen before. an instance auto-pings a link a very short time after it federates over, which happens about as rapidly as you're imagining
-- freya raccooncat