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Lemmy.ml and beehaw.org getting hammered with traffic because of spez ama (self.lemmy)

submitted 2 years ago by henry to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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Both were down for me before, they seem to be up right now but just made this account on Lemmy.blahaj.zone (Henry is the name of my actual blahaj lol). It's probably because of the traffic influx from reddit refugees from the absolutely disastrous spez ama (where he doubles down on everything and doesn't apologize at all). Allegedly they're trying to suppress Lemmy mentions but I guess it's not working well enough lol

A good problem to have although long term we're going to have to figure out how to deal with these spikes in traffic.

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[-] V4uban@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago

Good news overall

[-] sock-puppet@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

reporting for duty to join the revolution. thank you for hosting us!!

[-] 42triangles@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I've been looking at different Lemmy communities the second pushshift was down (and let's just say finding things on Reddit suddenly became a lot harder because the built-in search function is kinda limited in a bunch of ways), and just made my account today out of random chance essentially LOL

[-] 42triangles@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Also my timing was so perfect that just as I tried to log in after getting the confirmation email, it went down. Needless to say I was kinda scared that I did something for a second before realizing that was rather unlikely

[-] density@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

I also got a couple of "you broke reddit" pages trying to follow the post. So even reddit servers couldn't keep up with how made people are. And this is on a Friday, traditionally the day to do things you do not want noticed.

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