Pepare for DDOS

I feel like people are setting themselves up for disappointment

This, most users who decided to make the jump to Lemmy will have already done so
- Never underestimate herd-mentality. I put off the switch until today in hopes of a dialogue between mods and admins. Reddit doubled down on their stupidity so here i am switching with the early members of r/startrek
Idts, I mean it's pretty rough on some edges but it will be fine eventually ~~(until the hype goes down and people just go back to reddit)~~

rip in peace, OG Lemmy

He was a legend

Idk, I feel like all the reddit users who are going to transition (of which I am one) have already done so

The majority, yeah. Users didn't go to third party apps out of spite toward reddit; I doubt too many will have hung around this long in the spirit of some symbolic D-day to stick it to spez.
- I think a lot of people are waiting till their preferred app stops working so there’s still a chance.
- I feel like I'm in the minority, but I'd be happy going back to reddit if
  
  spez started be honest and transparent about his interactions with third party app devs
  
  reddit provides incredible moderation APIs immediately
  
  reddit stops (allegedly) "undeleting" posts
  
  If that all happens, I'd stop being upset with reddit and instead be understanding of their situation... untill spez did something else stupid and then I'd be upset again
I am principally opposed to what is going on with Reddit. But to be honest, I am much more practically opposed to using it without a third party app. Hence I have only just gotten around to join Lemmy now. If I wasn’t on vacation and had a bunch of time right now, I probably wouldn’t have joined until after the apps stopped working.

I expect that the practical reality of not being able to use your preferred Reddit app (which is still hours away) is going to be a big motivator compared to everything else leading up to this.
- Which shows you how little reddit invested in their own development for mobile. It's a huge factor to have a good app that's intuitive and fun to use
- I fully migrated but the vast majority of users won't. In fact, a significant portion of users that try Lemmy will likely go back to Reddit.
  
  This is what happened with the Twitter -> Mastodon migration: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/06/op-ed-why-the-great-twittermigration-didnt-quite-pan-out/

Might be one of the last "Reddit hug of death"

reddit is done without it's mods and content creators.

Oh yeah. The API change is official tomorrow isn't it?

apparently, people are nuking their reddits left and right (no pun intended).
- Do you mean subreddits or account?

this is a test. please ignore.

Yep, I've already noticed a new bug where it will say "language not allowed" unless I manually specify English from the dropdown.

Honestly feels like it's already started. I've been having trouble commenting or making posts on specific instances

I've had issues with even loading some posts
- It works for a few minutes and then stops. Clearly heavy server overload
try to subscribe to new communities. its a bit laggy.

someone donate to lemmy for me

Quick! Prepare the cloudfare anti ddos

Release the Kraken

Instances without captcha will be most affected.

Good strain-test then.
- Yeah, but somewhat unconventional method of stress test. Anyway happy that reddit is getting ditched by some people atleast.

@supakaity@blahaj.zone Do you think the new version of lemmy, particularly v0.18.0, might decrease load tomorrow? Don't know what all it entails but you are the expert. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/releases/tag/0.18.0

I am interested to know as well, this is obviously just a meme and lemmy decentralized, correct? Would it help to not log in tomorrow to decrease traffic?
- Would it help to not log in tomorrow to decrease traffic?
  
  I've been thinking of doing that, or to maybe switch to some small obscure instance

I'm not TRYING to hurt Lemmy 😭 I will only try to do a normal amount of user behavior - and I'll try to be patient and gentle while I'm at it, I swear!