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#390: Mastodon for Python Devs

Talk Python To Me

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How to Send a Toot to a Server?

I have a little pet project brewing now since the start of this year or rather like the end of the last one. And that is activity part focus, so I was also working on that stuff a bit in the background. It turns out anytime you send a toot, it needs to be sent to every server that at least one of your followers is on. So if I toot, that's 580 deliveries that need to be made. That sounds like a pretty giant and intimidating amount of traffic. But actually sending 600 requests because I toot it by modern web standards isn't really an enormous amounts of traffic. This is why I feel like there's some low-hury fruit here

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