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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.

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[โ€“] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] sevon@lemmy.kde.social 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. I'm actually worried that some people entered bogus data in an effort to boost the petitions.

[โ€“] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months 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.

[โ€“] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] wizzor@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

We have the same mechanism of citizen's initiatives here in Finland and many of the initiatives get a big boost early and just before closing. See here for an example https://www.kansalaisaloite.fi/fi/aloite/11377

[โ€“] mintiefresh@piefed.ca 11 points 2 months ago

Wow, it is amazing to watch the numbers skyrocket the past few days!

Go Europe!

[โ€“] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Weโ€™re 3k away from 1m! ๐ŸŽฎ

[โ€“] Jobe@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Less than a thousand now, we'll have it in 10 minutes or so

[โ€“] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

900 left! Keep going!

[โ€“] hOrni@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Ok, so that's why I can't get to the site.

[โ€“] tyler@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The petition (along with the Pirate Software drama) has recently been covered by quite a few very popular content creators like MoistCritikal, Asmongold and Pewdiepie. I think that made a lot of difference, as their videos on the topic have millions of views.

[โ€“] maam@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Critical's video on covering the drama caused a massive spike in interest.

[โ€“] krimson@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Wow! I looked yesterday and it was at 660k or something?

[โ€“] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

It's less than 600 to go at the moment. i'm fairly certain we'll reach the 202 signature per day required.