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henry Jun 9, 2023

Lemmy.ml and beehaw.org getting hammered with traffic because of spez ama

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/75773

Lemmy.ml and beehaw.org getting hammered with traffic because of spez ama - Blåhaj Lemmy

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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LadyAutumn Jun 9, 2023

It'll balance out as more instances start up. I also joined blahaj. The flurry of activity gives me some vague sense of hope that most of the communities I followed on reddit will be able to restart on Lemmy.

Its almost too late, ive seen posts on several subs saying they're shutting down permanently due to the effective permanent removal of 3rd party mod tools and the misery of the 1st party apps. Reddit could be looking at a mass exodus a-la-digg. It remains to be seen how the fediverse will handle the mass influx of former redditors. If Spez has any shred of decency left he'd apologize profusely and then beg the mods who are leaving to stay. Knowing capitalists, he absolutely will not.

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SammichParade Jun 9, 2023

I joined vlemmy.net .. I think it said there was one other user when I joined lol. No idea what I'm doing but so far it seems like I can see all the content from other instances as well.

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cnnrduncan

Yep! The idea behind federation is that there are a bunch of smaller instances that can all talk to each other rather than one big central authority like with Facebook or Reddit!