What is our famous phrase for putting strain on websites? So we have it ready for when we reach critical mass one day.
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.
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. 😌
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”.
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.
Today it’s just the Lamey effect
I’m going to take a slightly broader view and suggest “ActivityPubCrawl”.
Unless that’s already a thing that I don’t know about?
LemmyParty
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Calm down jar jar
I pull out my red light saber, then put on on my robe and wizard hat.
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Let’s not get ahead of ourselves here
“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
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 Lemmy Lick.
Out of all the choices, I like this the most.
The dangerous little lick.
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?si=Xp-GyhQZhiN_SHEf
WTF?
