your nprofile is always best

Booted into windows for first time in a year and I cannot believe how slow and bloated and horrible this operating system is

How the fuck do people live like this

What is the best note-taking app that exists?

Chances are everyone here knows this, but in case you don’t, set your max charge level on devices to 80% to make your battery last longer.

You're not a dad until you've installed countdown timers for bathroom lights and fans.

Hopefully we get some kind of benefits from getting in early 😁

THANK ME WITH SATS, NOT WORDS

Relays don't generate previews, they are dumb, they just serve content. The clients will do the work.

I think you misunderstand. We're talking about a website being DDoS'd by many mastadon "instances" vs being DDoS'd by many Nostr "clients".

Clients will be fine, it's the website that suffers.

Nostr's infrastructure differs significantly from Mastodon's in several key aspects:

1. Network Structure: Nostr uses a client-relay design, where users create identities with public/private key pairs and can switch relays while preserving their identity and history. Mastodon, on the other hand, employs a federated model with independent servers (instances) that communicate with each other. This is important concerning DDoS.

2. Identity Management: In Nostr, a user's public key serves as their identity, allowing them to maintain the same identity across different relays. Mastodon ties user identities to specific instances, making it more challenging to move between servers. Again, here you can see the extra overhead required for the thinky-think parts with Mastodon servers.

3. Protocol Complexity: Nostr prioritizes simplicity and flexibility with a lightweight protocol. Mastodon uses the more complex ActivityPub protocol, which offers more features but sacrifices scalability and simplicity. THINKY-THINK SERVERS!

4. Inter-server Communication: Nostr relays do not communicate with each other, unlike Mastodon's federated model where instances interact. This design choice in Nostr contributes to its increased censorship resistance and decentralization. Ties back to #1 importance with DDoS.

Because clients are not all online 247. People open their clients at random times, many clients may never see the content, etc.

My initial thought is no:

When mastadon servers share a link between themselves, they are all up at the same time and so they all rush to get a preview at basically the same time.

I imagine most users and their clients will pick up the shared link at different times, offsetting the load. So my hypothesis is that it is the mastadon servers that cause this, not the clients and therefore this will not have an impact on Nostr.

It would be nice to get a confirmation by a webmaster though.

I think you misunderstand the issue.

“With Mastodon being a federated platform (a part of the Fediverse), the request to generate a link preview is not generated by just one Mastodon instance. There are many instances connected to it who also initiate requests for the content almost immediately.

And, this ‘fediverse effect’ increases the load on the website's server in a big way.”

Nostr doesn’t work like this, and therefore the issue is not a concern.