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 What's going on with the Mastodon web interface (advanced view)? Since yesterday, I keep getting rate limited but I'm not doing anything excessive. Nothing different from normal. 
 Seriously, though. This is getting really annoying. 
 @e7f76f0d 

Msstodon dot social is anecdotally reported as having issues fairly often

429 Too Many Requests: The user has sent too many requests in a given amount of time ("rate limiting").
 
which really tells us nothing useful

It may be that the Advanced View is trying to fill in a lot of detail that you're not even looking at, in anticipation that you might

Dunno: I stick with individual web browser tabs