guess who showed up... https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/4486
@angristan This aint good is it? :] Is there any way to turn link previews off?
@ftw there isn't, as far as I know
@angristan Hmm ok. Wouldn't mind claiming back all that storage space as well.
@angristan Ah, had to check, and we set that up a while ago. We're just using 50MB on preview cards right now. Not bad, not bad ^^
@quad I remember this!
@quad but that was just bad code (or they did this intentionally but I can't see why?) For mastodon, it's a decentralisation/scale problem
@quad I wonder how much bandwidth they wasted doing that
(for me the best solution we be to let the original instance fetch and distribute the preview)