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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week 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

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago

Now that's not true at all, we've killed Lemmy several times at this point