> Does it mean that posting a link on Mastodon generates 36704 requests to that URL?
No, it's a ratio of bytes for traffic . They're counting size of 1 request to post to Mastodon "a single roughly ~3KB POST", vs the total size of content served from GETing the url in that post.
IDK how valid this metric is, but that's what they're saying.
It's the language of "traffic amplification" as a network attack (1) as used in a DDOS. it's perhaps more relevant when comparing the total bytes in a number of IP Packets of various sizes.
I'm not saying that this is the optimal framing, but that's what they were going for: talking about this, correctly or not, as a de facto DDOS.
No, it's a ratio of bytes for traffic . They're counting size of 1 request to post to Mastodon "a single roughly ~3KB POST", vs the total size of content served from GETing the url in that post.
IDK how valid this metric is, but that's what they're saying.