cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32411514

Just hopped in to check and it looks like we’re effectively DDoSing the Petition site by refreshing.

You can either join the watch party on the official discord, or use some other tracker website to see the numbers get updated to help alleviate the traffic so that more people can sign.

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
    11·
    1 day ago

    Don’t stop promoting it though. Some signatures might be found to be invalid. Same with the UK petition that reached its goal yesterday.

    • Mark With a Z@lemmy.kde.social
      7·
      1 day ago

      That’s pretty much guaranteed. Some said the safe threshold is 1,2 m, but who knows how the number actually looks after validation. So any signature is still important.

        • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip
          2·
          21 hours ago

          Wouldn’t surprise me if large corporations that are against this forced their non-EU/UK employees to sign this in an attempt to kill it.

  • PonyOfWar@pawb.social
    8·
    1 day ago

    I just hope it’s natural traffic and not a ton of bots. The recent acceleration in signatures has been great to see, but also a bit… suspicious. In any case we should keep collecting as many signatures as possible after the million, as there will undoubtedly be fake/invalid signatures that will be filtered out at the end.

    • Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 day ago

      It’s not suspicious to me. It’s being talked about all over social media and almost all of the video game YouTubers and streamers have been pushing it these last few days.

      • PonyOfWar@pawb.social
        2·
        1 day ago

        The thing is, it would be far from the first time for fans of certain Internet personalities to manipulate petitions or polls on a massive scale. Yes, there has been a lot of genuine new support for the campaign, but I’m not sure I trust that there wasn’t quite a bit of botting as well, especially with how many new signatures there were even during late night and early morning hours. It’s unfortunately also quite trivial for some countries (like Germany) to enter fake signatures. Even without coordinated botting, I’m sure there were for example some Americans who saw how easy it was to enter a random name and did just that.

        I’m really happy about the support the campaign received but I think that, realistically, we’re not over the finish line yet and have to keep campaigning for more signatures over the next few weeks.

        Edit: Seems Ross agrees

  • tyler@programming.dev
    2·
    1 day ago

    What triggered the massive uptick in signatures recently? Was it that Pirate software guy having his video backfire?