@jefftk Would this still be a issue if Mastodon lazily built its link preview caches only after the first user requests the link?

Is the issue the total number of requests, or the fact that they are happening automatically, whether or not a specific user requests them?

@zebrask the latter: unless the requests are happening because someone directly asked for them, my interpretation is robots.txt should apply

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On one hand, _some_ of those problems would be solved, because the requests would be spread over more time (many instances won't have anyone looking at the new post within 60s). TBF, that can be done manually too.

Alas, this rules lawyery interpretation is already used for embedded images in e-mails: fetching them when the recipient is reading the email is considered perfectly fine and ~everyone does that (without any knowledge about any relationship or lack thereof between the owner of the site the image is on and the author of the email). An email with an embedded image sent to a mailing list is essentially equivalent to the situation here.

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