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What is a "rate_limit_error" and is it something that can be adjusted? (lemmy.ca)

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I receive a toast notification from the Jerboa app when trying to attach images to a post. I'm not sure if it's an app or a server limitation, so I'm starting here.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

A "Rate limit" is a server-side thing to prevent abuse or accidental overwork of the server. It's a limit imposed by the server at how often you can do something, the something might be commenting, upvoting, uploading an image, etc. and the limits might be layered in that you might be able to only post once every 2 minutes no matter what, but you also might not be able to make more than 100 API requests over a period of 60s regardless of what those requests are.

The limits can be hard limits, as in you hit the limit and you have to wait for 2mins before trying again, or it might be more like a sliding scale where it's "no more than x over a given 5min period" in which case mashing the button will lock you out for 5mins but hitting it every minute or so won't incur a limit.