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
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. 😌
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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swordgeek@lemmy.ca · 179 pts · 1y
The "oh hey, is that an uptick in traffic?"
We're not going to break anyone's website.
henfredemars@infosec.pub · 35 pts · 1y
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.
osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org · 54 pts · 1y
Now that's not true at all, we've killed Lemmy several times at this point
Anticorp@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
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.
cm0002@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
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
Sunshine@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 1y
Don’t underestimate the growth when more ground work is being done.
mp3@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 1y
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/
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 6 pts · 1y
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. 😌
stoy@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 1y
That is different though, the Reddit hug of death as a concept doesn't have any malicious intent.
stoy@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 1y
Yeah, that is my take on it as well, and we should call that bump in traffic the "Lemmy hello".
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 74 pts · 1y
Lemmy Tickle
subignition@fedia.io · 9 pts · 1y
damn it, and just when I believed I had an original thought today
Sunshine@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 1y
That’s a cute one!
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world · 57 pts · 1y
Lemmy tickle? Not enough people to do much of anything yet.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee · 29 pts · 1y
Lemmy's gentle caress
Lemmy's inaudible murmur
AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 1y
Lennny@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 1y
Putting strain on websites would require users. We don't need a name for that yet.
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com · 5 pts · 1y
Today it's just the Lamey effect
OpenStars@piefed.social · 1 pts · 1y
Phenomephrene@thebrainbin.org · 30 pts · 1y
I'm going to take a slightly broader view and suggest "ActivityPubCrawl".
Unless that's already a thing that I don't know about?
Brkdncr@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 1y
LemmyParty
crawancon@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
ooo MEESA Lika dis
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 2 pts · 1y
Calm down jar jar
crawancon@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
I pull out my red light saber, then put on on my robe and wizard hat.
toiletobserver@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y
Anticorp@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 1y
"Huh, I had 12 more visitors today than yesterday."
crawancon@lemm.ee · 15 pts · 1y
the lemmy blip
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca · 26 pts · 1y
Let's not get ahead of ourselves here
Notyou@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 1y
psyklax@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 25 pts · 1y
Lemmywinked
Because.. the site winked.. out of existence for a minute?
Some day in the distant future (the year 2000!)
IMongoose@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 1y
Lemmy Smash
Draegur@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y
if ever it does become a thing, it must be this.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 22 pts · 1y
Lemmy users are Lemmings so we could say it followed us off a cliff.
Mothra@mander.xyz · 12 pts · 1y
The Cliffjumping
themeatbridge@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
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.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y
The Lemming Plunge.
jimmy90@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
falling off the Lemmy cliff?
ieatpwns@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y
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
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com · 18 pts · 1y
The unnoticeable blip
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 1y
The Lemmy Cliff Run
BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 1y
sanguinepar@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
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?
Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 1y
The Lemmy Lick.
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 1y
Out of all the choices, I like this the most.
Sunshine@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
The dangerous little lick.
xapr@lemmy.sdf.org · 17 pts · 1y
Lemmy users are Lemminators, so the site has been Lemminated.
fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 1y
Gerbilling / Gerbilled
Ah fuck, our server is getting Gerbilled by Lemmywinks.
sawdustprophet@midwest.social · 11 pts · 1y
In 10 years, this will be an XKCD comic.
GlenRambo@jlai.lu · 15 pts · 1y
5 up votes.
fluxion@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
The Lemmy Orbital Bombardment, LOB'd for short.
One day it'll make sense.
Ledivin@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
The Lemmy speed bump? I don't think it gets a name until it's something that can actually happen 😅
Drusas@fedia.io · 12 pts · 1y
The Fark hug of death came before the Reddit hug of death.
riskable@programming.dev · 13 pts · 1y
...and that came after The Slashdot Effect which was--as far as I know--the original "effect":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect?wprov=sfla1
Drusas@fedia.io · 5 pts · 1y
I was commenting more on the name "hug of death". That didn't start on Reddit.
stinerman@midwest.social · 3 pts · 1y
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.
elephantium@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
I was remembering "slashdotted"
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world · 12 pts · 1y
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.)
letsgo@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
I don't remember how many hours I sank into that game on my Amiga. Loved it.
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world · 1 pts · 1y
Considering your handle, Imma guess it was a LOT.
droporain@lemmynsfw.com · 12 pts · 1y
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 1 pts · 1y
Perfect
droporain@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 1y
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 1 pts · 1y
Now that you mention it I don't think it's required reading outside of the USA?
Plus it's massively ableist, eugenicist, etc and maybe honestly shouldn't be tbh.
droporain@lemmynsfw.com · 0 pts · 1y
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 1 pts · 1y
You can argue that Mein Kampf should be required reading too, but it rather depends on how it's taught on whether that would be a good thing.
droporain@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 1y
whaleross@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
The lemmy leave office early because the servers are barely noticing the extra traffic.
treadful@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 1y
The Lemmy unidentifiable minor blip.
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 11 pts · 1y
Everyone knows the best memes are those prepared in advance and committee-designed to be memes.
ech@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 1y
The Lemming Cliff
will_a113@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 1y
The Lemmy Gentle Whisper
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 1y
Draegur@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 1y
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.
stoy@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 1y
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.
thefartographer@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y
Lemmy look at that real quick
intensely_human@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
bismillah no!
atomicorange@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
The Lemming rush
TheDrunkard@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
A dogfart in the wind.
frezik@midwest.social · 4 pts · 1y
Lemmoned
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Lemmy leprosy
Lemmy landslide
Lemmy languid
jimmy90@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Lemming cliff?
maniel@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 1y
Lemmie commies influx😅
psyc@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Lemmy Love Tap
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
Beans and voids?
bizarroland@fedia.io · 2 pts · 1y
Going over the cliff.
Sunshine@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
Here’s another one: Lemmy lock.
Potatisen@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
The Lemmy Train
Sprinks@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
It has/had the lemur scent mark.
RandoMcRanderton@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
riskable@programming.dev · 0 pts · 1y
Just like poop, it can't happen.
RhythmCustard@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y
Lemmy Wammie
RonnieB@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 1y
DarkCloud@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 1y
The Lemmy just censor your comment about needing more shootings like the one Luigi Mangione is accused of.
AmidFuror@fedia.io · 1 pts · 1y
Username checks out.