When Digg has the “Digg Effect” and Reddit has the “Reddit Hug of Death” then what is Lemmy’s equivalent?
What is our famous phrase for putting strain on websites? So we have it ready for when we reach critical mass one day.
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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.
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
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
ooo MEESA Lika dis
Calm down jar jar
I pull out my red light saber, then put on on my robe and wizard hat.
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 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?
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
Lemmy users are Lemminators, so the site has been Lemminated.
Gerbilling / Gerbilled
Ah fuck, our server is getting Gerbilled by Lemmywinks.
In 10 years, this will be an XKCD comic.
5 up votes.
The Lemmy speed bump? I don't think it gets a name until it's something that can actually happen 😅
The Lemmy Orbital Bombardment, LOB'd for short.
One day it'll make sense.
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.
The lemmy leave office early because the servers are barely noticing the extra traffic.
The Lemmy unidentifiable minor blip.
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":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect?wprov=sfla1
I was commenting more on the name "hug of death". That didn't start on Reddit.
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"
Perfect
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.
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.
The Lemmy Gentle Whisper
Everyone knows the best memes are those prepared in advance and committee-designed to be memes.
The Lemming Cliff
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.
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.
Lemmy look at that real quick
The Lemming rush
A dogfart in the wind.
bismillah no!
Lemmoned
Lemmy leprosy
Lemmy landslide
Lemmy languid
Lemming cliff?
Lemmy Love Tap
Lemmie commies influx😅
Beans and voids?
Going over the cliff.
It has/had the lemur scent mark.
The Lemmy Train
Here’s another one: Lemmy lock.
Lemmy Wammie
Just like poop, it can't happen.
The Lemmy just censor your comment about needing more shootings like the one Luigi Mangione is accused of.
Username checks out.