The Lemmy Train
this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2024
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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.
Lemmy Smash
if ever it does become a thing, it must be this.
It has/had the lemur scent mark.
Lemmy Love Tap
The Lemming rush
The ratio of furry porn to actual content ensures that this will never happen
Just like poop, it can't happen.
The lemmy leave office early because the servers are barely noticing the extra traffic.
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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":
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 commenting more on the name "hug of death". That didn't start on Reddit.
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A dogfart in the wind.
Going over the cliff.
Beans and voids?
Lemmy look at that real quick
The Lemming Cliff
The Lemmy speed bump? I don't think it gets a name until it's something that can actually happen 😅
The Lemmy Gentle Whisper
5 up votes.
Lemmy users are Lemminators, so the site has been Lemminated.
Lemmy Tickle
damn it, and just when I believed I had an original thought today
That’s a cute one!
The "oh hey, is that an uptick in traffic?"
We're not going to break anyone's website.
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. 😌
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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.
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
Now that's not true at all, we've killed Lemmy several times at this point
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/
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Lemmy users are Lemmings so we could say it followed us off a cliff.
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 Cliffjumping
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