This is amusing. Websites are struggling with the crawler requests from Fediverse instances when a new post propagates through the network. https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/11/mastodon-stampede/
Now that blogs and personal websites might see a revival, tons of people will have to learn the lessons us older website operators have learned during the first wave of social media when Twitter and Facebook got big.
The main lesson being: don’t serve dynamic content directly without any cache layer.
