When Digg has the “Digg Effect” and Reddit has the “Reddit Hug of Death” then what is Lemmy’s equivalent?
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.
The "oh hey, is that an uptick in traffic?"
We're not going to break anyone's website.
169 0 ReplyDon’t underestimate the growth when more ground work is being done.
7 0 ReplyLike 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/
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Lemmy Tickle
69 0 Replydamn it, and just when I believed I had an original thought today
8 0 ReplyThat’s a cute one!
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Lemmy tickle? Not enough people to do much of anything yet.
55 0 ReplyLemmy's gentle caress
Lemmy's inaudible murmur
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Putting strain on websites would require users. We don't need a name for that yet.
47 0 ReplyLemmyParty
29 0 Replyooo MEESA Lika dis
5 0 ReplyCalm down jar jar
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I'm going to take a slightly broader view and suggest "ActivityPubCrawl".
Unless that's already a thing that I don't know about?
28 0 ReplyLemmy Smash
25 0 Replyif ever it does become a thing, it must be this.
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Lemmywinked
Because.. the site winked.. out of existence for a minute?
Some day in the distant future (the year 2000!)
25 0 ReplyLet's not get ahead of ourselves here
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The Lemmy Lick.
18 0 ReplyOut of all the choices, I like this the most.
5 0 ReplyThe dangerous little lick.
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Ah fuck, our server is getting Gerbilled by Lemmywinks.
18 0 Replyour server is getting Gerbilled by Lemmywinks
In 10 years, this will be an XKCD comic.
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The Lemmy Cliff Run
17 0 ReplyThe 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
17 0 ReplyLemmy users are Lemminators, so the site has been Lemminated.
16 0 Reply5 up votes.
14 0 ReplyThe Lemmy Orbital Bombardment, LOB'd for short.
One day it'll make sense.
14 0 ReplyThe Lemmy speed bump? I don't think it gets a name until it's something that can actually happen 😅
13 0 ReplyThe lemmy leave office early because the servers are barely noticing the extra traffic.
12 0 ReplyThe Lemmy unidentifiable minor blip.
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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.)
12 0 ReplyThe Fark hug of death came before the Reddit hug of death.
12 0 Reply...and that came after The Slashdot Effect which was--as far as I know--the original "effect":
13 0 ReplyI was commenting more on the name "hug of death". That didn't start on Reddit.
5 0 ReplyI was remembering "slashdotted"
3 0 ReplyWas 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.
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The Lemming Cliff
11 0 ReplyEveryone knows the best memes are those prepared in advance and committee-designed to be memes.
11 0 ReplyThe Lemmy Gentle Whisper
10 0 ReplyDigg 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.
10 0 ReplyA dogfart in the wind.
5 0 ReplyLemmoned
4 0 ReplyThe Lemming rush
4 0 ReplyLemmie commies influx😅
3 0 ReplyLemmy leprosy
Lemmy landslide
Lemmy languid
3 0 ReplyLemmy Love Tap
3 0 ReplyLemming cliff?
3 0 ReplyLemmy Wammie
2 0 ReplyGoing over the cliff.
2 0 ReplyLemBizkit
2 0 ReplyThe ratio of furry porn to actual content ensures that this will never happen
2 0 ReplyThe Lemmy Train
2 0 ReplyBeans and voids?
2 0 ReplyHere’s another one: Lemmy lock.
2 0 ReplyIt has/had the lemur scent mark.
2 0 ReplyJust like poop, it can't happen.
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