The "oh hey, is that an uptick in traffic?"
We're not going to break anyone's website.
this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2024
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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.
Now that's not true at all, we've killed Lemmy several times at this point
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
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. 😌
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Lemmy Tickle
damn it, and just when I believed I had an original thought today
That’s a cute one!
Lemmy tickle? Not enough people to do much of anything yet.
Lemmy's gentle caress
Lemmy's inaudible murmur
Lemmy's vauge acknowledgment
Putting strain on websites would require users. We don't need a name for that yet.
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I'm going to take a slightly broader view and suggest "ActivityPubCrawl".
Unless that's already a thing that I don't know about?
"Huh, I had 12 more visitors today than yesterday."
the lemmy blip
Lemmywinked
Because.. the site winked.. out of existence for a minute?
Some day in the distant future (the year 2000!)
Lemmy Smash
if ever it does become a thing, it must be this.
Lemmy users are Lemmings so we could say it followed us off a cliff.
The Cliffjumping
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The thing where a server rack thinks it has traffic so the fans spin up but then it realizes it was just the wind so the fans stop after a few seconds
The unnoticeable blip
The Lemmy Cliff Run
Is this that footage that Disney faked by throwing lemmings off the cliff from a concealed position?
EDIT - it is! At 1:30 here: https://youtu.be/xMZlr5Gf9yY
WTF?
Lemmy users are Lemminators, so the site has been Lemminated.
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.
5 up votes.
The Lemmy speed bump? I don't think it gets a name until it's something that can actually happen 😅
The Lemmy Orbital Bombardment, LOB'd for short.
One day it'll make sense.
We're like the adorable little creatures in the game Lemmings (see my instance name), so we all cry "Let's go!" when we hit up a web site, and then cry out "Oh, no!" and explode when the that final click blows up the website.
(You'll have to be familiar with the game to get what I'm talking about.)
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The lemmy leave office early because the servers are barely noticing the extra traffic.
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The Fark hug of death came before the Reddit hug of death.
...and that came after The Slashdot Effect which was--as far as I know--the original "effect":
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The Lemmy Gentle Whisper
The Lemming Cliff
Everyone knows the best memes are those prepared in advance and committee-designed to be memes.
The Great Lemmoning.
Every post/comment has a 50% chance of becoming a lemon
🍋
Digg had the "digg effect".
Presently, it has nothing.
Digg is dead. Its main page is nothing but a bunch of zero effort AI-Slop listicles. I had to actually LOOK for any mention of anything relevant actually going on there, and when I DID finally see a news story about The Claims Adjuster allegedly being caught, there was like ... ONE comment. A based comment, admittedly: "Hero." - but still only one comment.
Since we are still fairly small, I think we should adopt the "Lemmy hello" as a friendly way of talking about when Lemmings rush over to a link.
It might generate a bump in traffic, but that is just the Lemmy hello.
Lemmy look at that real quick
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