The "oh hey, is that an uptick in traffic?"

We're not going to break anyone's website.

Lemmy Tickle

Lemmy tickle? Not enough people to do much of anything yet.

Putting strain on websites would require users. We don't need a name for that yet.

I'm going to take a slightly broader view and suggest "ActivityPubCrawl".

Unless that's already a thing that I don't know about?

LemmyParty

Let's not get ahead of ourselves here

"Huh, I had 12 more visitors today than yesterday."

Lemmywinked

Because.. the site winked.. out of existence for a minute?

Some day in the distant future (the year 2000!)

Lemmy Smash

Lemmy users are Lemmings so we could say it followed us off a cliff.

The unnoticeable blip

The thing where a server rack thinks it has traffic so the fans spin up but then it realizes it was just the wind so the fans stop after a few seconds

The Lemmy Cliff Run

The Lemmy Lick.

Gerbilling / Gerbilled

Ah fuck, our server is getting Gerbilled by Lemmywinks.

Lemmy users are Lemminators, so the site has been Lemminated.

5 up votes.

The Lemmy speed bump? I don't think it gets a name until it's something that can actually happen 😅

The Lemmy Orbital Bombardment, LOB'd for short.

One day it'll make sense.

The lemmy leave office early because the servers are barely noticing the extra traffic.

The Fark hug of death came before the Reddit hug of death.

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.)

Everyone knows the best memes are those prepared in advance and committee-designed to be memes.

The Lemmy Gentle Whisper

The Lemming Cliff

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.

Since we are still fairly small, I think we should adopt the "Lemmy hello" as a friendly way of talking about when Lemmings rush over to a link.

It might generate a bump in traffic, but that is just the Lemmy hello.

Lemmy look at that real quick