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Mastodon CPU cycles consumed by scrapers, not users

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Mastodon is experiencing significant resource strain due to excessive CPU cycles being consumed by scrapers. The platform dedicates more processing power to rendering commits for these scrapers than for all other legitimate access methods combined, including Git clones. This imbalance highlights a challenge in managing automated access and ensuring fair resource allocation for genuine users. AI

IMPACT Excessive scraping can degrade service performance and availability for legitimate users.

RANK_REASON The item discusses infrastructure strain on a social media platform due to automated access, which is a tooling/infrastructure issue.

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Mastodon CPU cycles consumed by scrapers, not users

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The item discusses infrastructure strain on a social media platform due to automated access, which is a tooling/infrastructure issue.
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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    « TL;DR: we spend more CPU cycles rendering commits for scrapers than we spend on all other kinds of legitimate access, including git clones. At any one time, a

    « TL;DR: we spend more CPU cycles rendering commits for scrapers than we spend on all other kinds of legitimate access, including git clones. At any one time, across 5 geo-distributed nodes, there are 14 CPU cores doing nothing but rendering git commits as html. » Konstantin Ryab…

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