What is our famous phrase for putting strain on websites? So we have it ready for when we reach critical mass one day.
Ah fuck, our server is getting Gerbilled by Lemmywinks.
our server is getting Gerbilled by Lemmywinks
In 10 years, this will be an XKCD comic.
Putting strain on websites would require users. We don’t need a name for that yet.
Today it’s just the Lamey effect
The Lemmy Orbital Bombardment, LOB’d for short.
One day it’ll make sense.
Here’s another one: Lemmy lock.
Lemmy users are Lemminators, so the site has been Lemminated.
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Now that you mention it I don’t think it’s required reading outside of the USA?
Plus it’s massively ableist, eugenicist, etc and maybe honestly shouldn’t be tbh.
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You can argue that Mein Kampf should be required reading too, but it rather depends on how it’s taught on whether that would be a good thing.
The “oh hey, is that an uptick in traffic?”
We’re not going to break anyone’s website.
Love Lemmy and want to see it grow, and it might be able to slow down a poorly-made site, but I doubt we have the raw clicks to cause an issue on properly-maintained websites.
Not even Reddit can hug properly hosted websites anymore. Our server architecture is quite a bit more robust and flexible now than it was even just 5 or 6 years ago.
have the raw clicks to cause an issue on properly-maintained websites.
That’s been true of Reddit forever now as well, I only ever remember the Hug of Death actually affecting only small time websites that probably had maybe like 3 people running it.
Links to anything else was usually just fine, barring a few exceptions because even the big boys make fuck ups too
But nowadays the bar to “properly maintained” is lower with more mature, robust and easier to use tooling
Now that’s not true at all, we’ve killed Lemmy several times at this point
Don’t underestimate the growth when more ground work is being done.
Like how Mastodon’s servers were accidentally DDoSing servers to generate a link preview as the post propagated on the fediverse.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/06/mastodon_delays_fix_ddos/
With all the devs and anarchists on Lemmy, we don’t necessarily need huge numbers to take down a website. Just 1 determined individual who knows their way around a botnet. 😌
That is different though, the Reddit hug of death as a concept doesn’t have any malicious intent.
Yeah, that is my take on it as well, and we should call that bump in traffic the “Lemmy hello”.
The Lemmy Gentle Whisper
The Lemmy speed bump? I don’t think it gets a name until it’s something that can actually happen 😅
Lemmy look at that real quick
5 up votes.
Lemmy users are Lemmings so we could say it followed us off a cliff.
Except they were corralled off the cliff to their doom by an overzealous documentary producer. Disney murdered a bunch of rodents to make their nature movie more interesting. Lemmings don’t actually follow each other off of cliffs.
The Lemming Plunge.
falling off the Lemmy cliff?
The Cliffjumping
Beans and voids?
The Lemming Cliff
Lemmoned
