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>>aendru+(OP)
> 429 Too Many Requests

Aight, level with me: Is every mastodon server running on a Raspberry Pi?

>>NavinF+ma
This post is on the front of HN. Many a larger website have succumbed to HN's warm embrace.

>>jszymb+rl
Isn't HN pretty small? This post has <400 upvotes over 3 hours. There can't be 1000x that amount of lurkers can there?

>>yreg+6J
HN has millions of page views per day (maybe @dang can give a more accurate and updated number), and things frequently gets reposted elsewhere. Happens many times that things on the frontpage gets brought down to its knees, this wouldn't be the first nor the last.

>>capabl+FN
Source on the millions?

This person says they got 12k visitors over a day:

https://nicklafferty.com/blog/what-happens-when-you-re-on-th...

The websites hugged to death by this forum are usually tiny hobby projects.

>>yreg+TP
Dang from 6 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33454140

> There's no stats page but last I checked it was around 5M monthly unique users (depending on how you count them), perhaps 10M page views a day (including a guess at API traffic), and something like 1300 submissions (stories) and 13k comments a day.