What is our famous phrase for putting strain on websites? So we have it ready for when we reach critical mass one day.
The unnoticeable blip
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves here
bismillah no!
Lemmoned
Lemmywinked
Because… the site winked… out of existence for a minute?
Some day in the distant future (the year 2000!)
Putting strain on websites would require users. We don’t need a name for that yet.
Today it’s just the Lamey effect
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 “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/
Yeah, that is my take on it as well, and we should call that bump in traffic the “Lemmy hello”.
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.
Lemmy tickle? Not enough people to do much of anything yet.
Lemmy’s gentle caress
Lemmy’s inaudible murmur
Lemmy’s vauge acknowledgment
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.)
I don’t remember how many hours I sank into that game on my Amiga. Loved it.
Considering your handle, Imma guess it was a LOT.
Lemmy Tickle
damn it, and just when I believed I had an original thought today
That’s a cute one!
The Lemmy Orbital Bombardment, LOB’d for short.
One day it’ll make sense.
The Great Lemmoning.
Every post/comment has a 50% chance of becoming a lemon
🍋
I’m going to take a slightly broader view and suggest “ActivityPubCrawl”.
Unless that’s already a thing that I don’t know about?
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.
