# AP processing dragging forum down?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/ap-processing-dragging-forum-down/374033
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** activitypub
**Created:** [July 13, 2025, 7:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ap-processing-dragging-forum-down/374033 "2025-07-13T07:11:27Z")
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### Author: ![trwnh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/trwnh/32/509583_2.png) [@trwnh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/trwnh)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2025, 1:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ap-processing-dragging-forum-down/374033/3 "2025-07-14T13:25:46Z")

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if this is the case, then it is basically a "thundering herd" issue similar to how link previews can cause issues. to which the mitigation is that softwares should stop auto-fetching resources that might not ever be seen, and to instead use on-demand deferred "lazy loading" strategies.

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