as small instance admin I used FediFetcher to keep up with Fedi. Without some means to fetch context, my users are literally blindfolded most of the time they encounter a post originating from a "foreign" instance.

Not saying it's ideal or you'd be wrong to be pissed about the situation.

I've stopped FediFetcher for now, to see how this all plays out, but we small ones desperately need ways to keep up here 😀

Oh wow. That's a lot!

FWIW, given that FediFetcher by default mostly fetches replies to posts in people's home timelines, I do think that those fetched posts are probably looked at quite often. I certainly regularly do.

But I do really wish FediFetcher wasn't needed! It's such a pain that we miss so much context without it on small instances like mine.

@hybridhavoc

@michael @hybridhavoc Just out of interest what endpoints is the traffic generally hitting?

As I'm watching the logs on my instance here I can see that the majority of Fedifetcher traffic is to the search endpoint (which makes sense, it's my server, and I'm using it)

Any other instances of fedifetcher requests that I'm seeing (other servers fetching my post contexts) are a fraction of my other traffic.

ah, so not search then.

That is *quite* a lot of requests though :S