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.
Ok, so that’s why I can’t get to the site.
Wow, it is amazing to watch the numbers skyrocket the past few days!
Go Europe!
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.
What triggered the massive uptick in signatures recently? Was it that Pirate software guy having his video backfire?
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.
It’s less than 600 to go at the moment. i’m fairly certain we’ll reach the 202 signature per day required.
We’re 3k away from 1m! 🎮
Less than a thousand now, we’ll have it in 10 minutes or so
900 left! Keep going!
Don’t stop promoting it though. Some signatures might be found to be invalid. Same with the UK petition that reached its goal yesterday.
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.
Yeah. I’m actually worried that some people entered bogus data in an effort to boost the petitions.
