If you inspect the POST what do you see? Is it not just a method to determine if you have unread mail to view?
this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2023
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I haven't inspected the content of the requests though, I just saw them on my proxy logs. It may be worth checking. Thanks!
Definitely the content of each request, otherwise you won’t know why your server is being hit. Use wireshark if necessary. Or there’s a command line utility to do the same thing but I can’t remember it’s name right now.
POSTs are how federation works (ActivityPub is a Push-based protocol). When you "subscribe" to a community on say lemmy.ml, you are telling it to periodically send you updates about that community. This comes in the form of POSTS.
As to the frequency of the POSTs, I can imagine something like lemmy.ml having a lot of activity that it needs to inform your instance of (new votes, new comments, new posts, etc)... but I'm not sure if one request per second is reasonable or not.
I see, thanks!
That's just how federation works. You've federated with an instance/user so now your self hosted instance will be updated.
Is there a reason you're concerned about the requests? The payloads should be relatively small, and unless you're running on some really old hardware, one request a second with a small payload should not have any noticeable impact.
Yeah I'm always running my self-hosted projects on the smallest and cheapest VPC I can find. But apart from flooding my logs I haven't noticed anything else being too much affected by this. I'm currently improving the observability of my system though, so who knows.
I was just a little concerned. Thanks for answering!
In addition to the suggestion from @etchinghillside@reddthat.com, it might also be helpful to ask in !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml