Some will cheer, some will be mildly disappointed. But I’m out, I think.
My federated social network is ruined.
I’m sorry to see you go but I understand why you feel you need to leave. We’ll miss you around these parts. Take care PugJesus!
I’m sorry if this misses you, but your memes and wonderful breakdowns of history always made me smile. Thank you for everything.
Thank you for everything you’ve done, and for your history posts, I always looked forward to seeing them. The fediverse will be a grayer place without your posts.
Thank you for making fediverse so much more enjoyable all this time. Sad to see you leave, but totally understandable.
Aww man, I’m sorry. You were always awesome, and boy do I understand not wanting to start over. The Fediverse is great in some ways, but the Roguelike Social Media aspect is… not it’s most endearing feature.
I can’t even savescum like I did with ADOM back on my shitty laptop in 2005 DX
Yeah… man, I understand the technical limitations but it sure would be convenient if you could transfer user profiles.
Honestly, as I said elsewhere, I could do it if it was just my user profile. Communities are the real issue. Building up activity to the point where I’m not always the only person posting takes months of constant activity, every time.
I just don’t have it in me again.
Ah, yeah somehow I was envisioning user profiles including communities and… yeah, anyways, I for sure get it. I helped get a bunch of communities started over on reddit back when I was in college, and these days I just don’t have anything like the
adderallfree time that really requires. Much love for the work you already put in, your history posts really were a highlight of my mornings!
Quick! Let’s build an iron curtain to contain him!
Peace, brethren. We need more like ya - and that’s just the problem, getting communities to a critical mass in this medium is kind of unsustainable. Maybe we should go back to forums.
I feel like critical mass is very much possible and sustainable in this medium. I remember watching Reddit communities hit critical mass, and it was generally similar to the curve here, just on a faster scale.
The issue is the instability, and the instability is largely because of poor planning (God love Ernest, and I hear he’s doing better health-wise now, but he shouldn’t have been running the instance basically solo to begin with) and decisions.
The instability is definitely a sour note. I don’t disagree with your choices at all, for the record. I just feel like this format is probably better suited to being run by actual organisations, rather than loners with weird motives.
If there was a nonprofit org (or god forbid, an employee owned company) that ran a link aggregation platform, I’d see that as far more sustainable in human terms. It takes sysadmins, active moderators whose agenda is actually aligned with the mission of the platform, and dance commanders like you (is that a good word for it?) to bolster engagement and build community.
Just thinking out loud here, I’m not trying to talk you into anything or whatever. You deserve some extra free time.
Hosting instances by a nonprofit org definitely seems like a good idea, it’s why after feddit.de happened feddit.org is now in the hands of the Fediverse Foundation
Yeah, I agree. Institutions running instances would be much more reliable. Unfortunately, we play the game with the cards we have, not the cards we want.
Wait are you really leaving?
Yeah. Continuing to post on Piefed.social feels futile, and I just… don’t have the energy to migrate and rebuild my comms again.
I’m not happy about it, and I wish I had more to give. But I also learned a long time ago not to press myself beyond my limits.
thank you so much for all that you gave to us. You were one of the cornerstones of the fediverse and I thank you for all the information you gave us. I hope you have a great life. All the best.
Oh nonono, we do not authorize you to leave actually.
Well, I know I can’t convince you, so, good luck on your life out there! :)
Oh shit I’ll be sad to see you go
I’m really sorry to hear this.
If you ever deicde to try again in the future, please give Piefed.zip a shot.
While I don’t use it (I’m on the sister Lemmy instance, Lemmy.zip), I’ve got nothing but praises for the Admins.
To this day I haven’t seen a single thing to even so much make me think about migrating.I concur, piefed.zip has been my home since lemm.ee went down and so far so good!
Not sure why that’s the last straw? I thought that feature was why we like this place??
Vote limiting was only implemented (or even suggested) earlier this month.
I came to the Fediverse in the hopes of cultivating a non-corporate-controlled forum/social media alternative to Reddit. I came to Piefed.social in the hopes of avoiding the fascist genocide denying devs of Lemmy.
Vote limiting isn’t nearly as bad as fascism or genocide denial. But vote limiting makes my experience significantly shittier, and I’m only here, ultimately, as long as the experience is more good (by my perception) than bad.
Now that the experience is more frustrating than not, my choices are to migrate (and thus, since most of my activity is concentrated in comms that are currently on Piefed.social, moving and trying to rebuild the communities from scratch, for a fourth time in my Fediverse career), or to simply… stop using the Fediverse.
I don’t have the energy to migrate a fourth time, though I wish I did. The thought itself is… crushing in its Sisyphean futility. So… I’ll probably just go back to doomscrolling Tumblr and playing games with my free time, instead of shitposting about history.
Thanks for the explanation, will you just stop using one all together? Or are you going to a different kind of place?
I’ll probably go back to doomscrolling Tumblr and the like. I was a lurker on Reddit for years - while I don’t intend to go back to Reddit, lurking is what my social media consumption was before the Fediverse, and it seems that is probably what it will be after.
PugJesus, you are completely awesome and your contribution to the success of the fediverse is immense. Thank you so, so much.
I can’t believe anyone can be so stupid as to think that stopping the most engaged people being engaged in the community would be in any way sensible. And limiting voting? When you can only ever vote once on each post or comment? Piefed developers: “this popularity really needs capping”.
Have you engaged with a mod/admin ever? They’re usually fucking idiots.
wow, look at that!
the thing I complained about came true.
piefed was just a grift to kill federation.
piefed was just a grift to kill federation.
what
when piefed was publicly released there was a concerted effort to flood lemmy federated platforms. People were writing, now obvious, LLM generated comments about how much better piefed was over lemmy.
I even went as far as to call piefed a cult with how viciously piefed users “defended” piefed.
I warned people that the movements seemed unusual for a new platform and more like a hostile takeover. I was downvoted and told to stfu.
so here we are today. I’m not entirely sure why a social media platform would want to do what piefed is doing other than just attempting to fracture and destroy the federation.
I think that’s less the developer of Piefed than the users on Lemmy who cannot abide their political differences with the Lemmy devs.
The hostile takeover before piefed I remember was the failed forced migration of 196 from Blahaj to .world. And that was by a gaggle of transphobes who ultimately opposed Blahaj’s zero tolerance policy on transphobia. Those transphobes have considered Blahaj to be a tankie instance and all of Lemmy to be tankie since.
And those folks were early adopters of Piefed and were very vocal about it.
The hostile takeover before piefed I remember was the failed forced migration of 196 from Blahaj to .world. And that was by a gaggle of transphobes who ultimately opposed Blahaj’s zero tolerance policy on transphobia. Those transphobes have considered Blahaj to be a tankie instance and all of Lemmy to be tankie since.
… it’s astounding that you think the original 196 mod team, which was comprised primarily of trans folk, left Blahaj because they were transphobes.
Thank you for all the dank memes! I particularly loved your historical artifacts and illustration posts. You are appreciated, and will be missed.
