What is our famous phrase for putting strain on websites? So we have it ready for when we reach critical mass one day.
A dogfart in the wind.
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?
Lemmy leprosy
Lemmy landslide
Lemmy languid
The Lemmy just censor your comment about needing more shootings like the one Luigi Mangione is accused of.
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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”:
Was just gonna say. I’m old enough to remember when it was the Slashdot effect. And you put links to the Coral Cache of the website as a nice way to guard against slashdotting.
I was remembering “slashdotted”
I was commenting more on the name “hug of death”. That didn’t start on Reddit.
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?
5 up votes.
The lemmy leave office early because the servers are barely noticing the extra traffic.
The Lemmy unidentifiable minor blip.
Lemmy Smash
if ever it does become a thing, it must be this.
The “oh hey, is that an uptick in traffic?”
We’re not going to break anyone’s website.
Yeah, that is my take on it as well, and we should call that bump in traffic the “Lemmy hello”.
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
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
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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.
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/
The Lemmy Lick.
The dangerous little lick.
Out of all the choices, I like this the most.
The Lemmy Gentle Whisper
It has/had the lemur scent mark.
Lemmy users are Lemminators, so the site has been Lemminated.
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.
