blog! “WebMentions, Privacy, and DDoS - Oh My!”
Mastodon - the distributed social network - has two interesting challenges when it comes to how users share links. I'd like to discuss those issues and suggest a possible way forward. When you click on a link on my website which takes you to another website, your browser sends a Referer1. This says to …
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@Edent Interesting. One issue is that you are effectively caching site metadata - you comment on some aspects of this. Another aspect: what happens if I as website owner want to change my site meta data? Do i just have to put up with stale cache content? I have already seen this problem on FB.