What is our famous phrase for putting strain on websites? So we have it ready for when we reach critical mass one day.
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?
I’m going to take a slightly broader view and suggest “ActivityPubCrawl”.
Unless that’s already a thing that I don’t know about?
The Lemming Cliff
The Lemmy Gentle Whisper
Lemmy Tickle
That’s a cute one!
damn it, and just when I believed I had an original thought today
“Huh, I had 12 more visitors today than yesterday.”
the lemmy blip
Beans and voids?
The Lemmy speed bump? I don’t think it gets a name until it’s something that can actually happen 😅
Lemmoned
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”:
I was commenting more on the name “hug of death”. That didn’t start on Reddit.
I was remembering “slashdotted”
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.
5 up votes.
bismillah no!
The unnoticeable blip
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”.
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.
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.
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
Now that’s not true at all, we’ve killed Lemmy several times at this point
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves here
