What is our famous phrase for putting strain on websites? So we have it ready for when we reach critical mass one day.
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?
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves here
Lemmy users are Lemmings so we could say it followed us off a cliff.
The Cliffjumping
The Lemming Plunge.
The Lemmy Lick.
Out of all the choices, I like this the most.
The dangerous little lick.
5 up votes.
The Fark hug of death came before the Reddit hug of death.
Lemmy users are Lemminators, so the site has been Lemminated.
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 unnoticeable blip
The lemmy leave office early because the servers are barely noticing the extra traffic.
The Lemmy unidentifiable minor blip.
The Lemmy Cliff Run
Ah fuck, our server is getting Gerbilled by Lemmywinks.
our server is getting Gerbilled by Lemmywinks
In 10 years, this will be an XKCD comic.
The Lemmy Gentle Whisper
The Lemming Cliff