yes, you should put a cache in front of a blog. nginx and wp-supercache do well. but.

mastodon's auto-DDOS feature is still obnoxious. and in a social network, technically designed in obnoxiousness is incompetent.

i realise it'd need extension of activitypub, but is anyone working on sending prerendered cards with the URL? just to save 1000 servers hammering the URL to generate their own cards locally.