Preparing for the hug of death

I'm here from Reddit.... Gimme hugs!

Another reddit refugee here and this is my first ever comment on Lemmy.ml (or any of the Lemmy instances, for that matter). Welcome!
- And another one here. Let reddit burn to the ground with their own VC greed.
- We'll explore this weird new world t together!
- Exciting time for us!
Noooo we can't give any more!!
- Awww.... Mean.
Same here, feels interesting but good!
- We'll see.... 🤗
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- Ty

Created my own instance to help out. Created a few communities, hopefully they'll become searchable from the big instances soon.

Someone has to search for the full address and then follow a community for it to be followed by a server.
Put some links to your communities, I'll sub to start the link
- I've made three so far -
  https://1337lemmy.com/c/thesopranos
  https://1337lemmy.com/c/chicubs
  https://1337lemmy.com/c/chibears
  The link has finally been made, so no need to sub unless you'd like to. Thanks for offering!
In the future, there's nothing that says you or anyone else can't create accounts on a few of the large instances and subscribe to communities on your own instance to make this link happen!
Thank you for your service.

It'll be good practice for when a bunch of third party apps die and some post about "how to go about delete your stuff and registering on this list of alternatives in just a few easy steps" comes up.

And by practice, I mean that the horse corpse is going to be fucking pulverized.

Those lists are already up, and a few instances are already down
My first plan was to delete my content the first of July if reddit didn't change mind, but I'll delete it before because I want to use a third party app to do so without too much hustle

It would make a great stress test though when suddenly millions join Lemmy :)

Reddit chose a very bad time to mess up, right when we're in the middle of coding some of our biggest performance improvements. They timed this perfectly to make things as stressful as possible for nutomic and I lol.
- Great work and good luck!!!
  I've been busy too recently and I just noticed yesterday the influx of new users... So I've updated and upgraded the server a bit. Hopefully I can keep my instance running smoothly and contribute a little bit that way!
- The ones that really want to get in, would wait a long time i guess, like i certainly would! The only reason i am not here months ago, is because i did not know this place existed
- Well...I hear good things about Ritalin. Good luck, and godspeed lol
  I am so not jealous. Just know that we appreciate all your hard work.
- Your efforts are appreciated!
- I just discovered kbin which looks very nice. Do you plan to share the like/dislike feature with them so that accounts can be cross-used?
- Depending on how bad the perf is, it may be worth it throwing the instance on a real big machine to take the load to buy time for the optimization work without turning many users away. Contributions should increase with the flood of users. If a big machine could mask the problems of course. Maybe they're too bad to mask. You probably know.
- Has there been any work / planning around an ability for third parties to setup broadcast servers to help distribute the load? I know that kind of thing is extremely difficult but maybe it would be a reasonable effort for handling read only requests. I haven't had a chance to look into lemmy's architecture yet so not sure if this is a valid question or not :)
No stress test needed, every admin has already said they know it's going down

And after the 1st of July too, probably

Definitely not. Before people were migrating from Twitter only just to go back
- Don't know. The thing with Mastodon is that you wouldn't find people to follow and it lacked features people wanted.
  Lemmy here is way more entertaining already. Of course a lot of people will just check it out and go back but I think enough will stick around. Like a small subreddit you enjoy and slowly grows.
- People go to twitter to see what famous people and influencers have to say.
- People would only migrate from Twitter if a lot of famous people migtated first.
- July 1st is when all the 3rd party apps will start dying. There will probably be an influx of people who weren't paying much attention or were hoping that nothing would really happen that suddenly start looking for an alternative when it affects them directly.

I've been part of Ruqqus & Imzy, I hope that this time it will be a success! (hopium overdose)

I miss Imzy, that was such a wholesome site :)
- I miss imzy tooo =(

⚰️💐

Why did I hear Ralph's voice inside my head?

Good news!

Well shet

No one will come; you can't use RIF here, either.

(ha ha)

Someone at RIF must be thinking about adding support for Lemmy.
E: Or jump to Jerboa. Looks a bit early in development but it's surprisingly functional.

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