There’s a pretty well-known problem with the Mastodon federated social network, where every time you post a link, each of your followers’ Mastodon servers will immediately download a copy of the page along with linked images. That’s fine when you don’t have a ton of followers, or the link goes to a fast server. But when popular folks post links to slow sites, they tend to go down.This is not a new problem in general, although the way that Mastodon does it behind the scenes is kind of ...
