Some will cheer, some will be mildly disappointed. But I’m out, I think.
So I always said you lot were just funny words on a screen to me, but I did tear up a little reading your comments. I guess I’ll miss a number of you. It made me feel better about the time I spent here posting, and worse about leaving.
I wish I had it in me to keep going like the last few times.
Thanks. To all (or, rather, the vast majority) of you. It was because of you that I enjoyed my time on the Fediverse so much.
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.
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!
My federated social network is ruined.
Thank you for making fediverse so much more enjoyable all this time. Sad to see you leave, but totally understandable.
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.
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!
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
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”.
PugJesus, you are completely awesome and your contribution to the success of the fediverse is immense.
Just don’t ever question him too much or he’ll ban you.
Have you engaged with a mod/admin ever? They’re usually fucking idiots.
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.
Thank you for all the dank memes! I particularly loved your historical artifacts and illustration posts. You are appreciated, and will be missed.
