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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€“] Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours 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