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Lemmy.ml and beehaw.org getting hammered with traffic because of spez ama (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Both were down for me before, they seem to be up right now but just made this account on Lemmy.blahaj.zone (Henry is the name of my actual blahaj lol). It's probably because of the traffic influx from reddit refugees from the absolutely disastrous spez ama (where he doubles down on everything and doesn't apologize at all). Allegedly they're trying to suppress Lemmy mentions but I guess it's not working well enough lol

A good problem to have although long term we're going to have to figure out how to deal with these spikes in traffic.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

is that somewhat new?

it's somewhat… janky.

you can 'migrate' an account, to use the masto term that will make it easier to search. this:

makes it so your old account can't post
puts a 'pointer' on that account so that you get its mentions (i think)
puts a note on that profile that you're really you-at-new-place now
causes all accounts following you to auto-follow the new place

it does not:

remove you-at-old-place from other people's follower·ing lists; old you eventually shows as dormant, but you're still in their lists until and unless they clean house
take any posts with you; you-at-new-place starts with an empty profile
copy over any profile information
copy over any post filters

i'm not clear on how long your old posts linger at old-place, and you might have to export/import your following list.

it's possible, i've seen lots of people do it, but it gets more unappealing the longer you've been actively using the account. unless you're like me and have posts set to self-destruct within days. and you can imagine the difficulty of actually moving the posts - if i were an avid shitposter and i moved house to noshit·social, then all my garbage would be dumped in the yard in violation of policy.