IIRC, PF-dev Rimu recently explained exactly why he was trialing such limits in a recent software update post. I.e., to create a more efficient internal & external software / HW backbone, for us users, AFAIK. Based on network / host / server loads etc, as I read the updates.
But yeah… the amount of recent negative reaction so far upon that seems… weirdly outsized?
(like, WTF?)
Like-- who the heck comes here exhausted upon corporate social media, and expects a free, open-source community of devs not to tinker with the road-posts and such…?
Pardon my puzzlement here, but I’m a happy PF contributor, and love @PugJesus@piefed.social. Both the dev here and PJ are friends of a sort, and some people I will always try to support.
I had started using my Piefed account to contribute at least a little bit, since I’m fully aware that things in the Fediverse work much the same way as they do on Wikipedia: a very, very small number of people are actively involved, and the rest - the vast majority of users - benefit from it.
Time and again, it was the same usernames - including and especially PugJesus, who was always there - that kept popping up.
Now that I have to watch how one of the - if not the - most important contributor is being treated, it no longer seems worth the effort to contribute anything at all to me.
I can’t understand what the developers think they’re entitled to: The best software in the world is nothing without purpose, and that is, of course, content when it comes to any social media app.
I had apparently mistakenly thought that things might be different in the Fediverse - that there’s an awareness here that it’s not so much the platform that’s valuable, but the content. Of course, I don’t mean at all to deny that the developers do a lot, but an action like this is simply unacceptable and shows a complete misunderstanding of community, which they apparently want to control rather than support. We’ve already had more than enough of that - that is why most users are here in the first place.
The “major-Plattform-attitude” is all too evident in the way you’re treated, PugJesus.
Why shouldn’t someone who pours their heart and soul, time, and dedication into this be rewarded for it? Why shouldn’t actual contributes not be worth more than all the lurkers who contribute nothing but expect their feed to be full of exciting content?
The answer is that developers have a completely wrong view of the world: their significant contribution lies in providing a tool. However, if there is no one to create beautiful things with it, all of this is completely worthless.
I’m deeply disappointed and so disillusioned that I’ve lost all motivation to contribute anything at all.
I simply do not share the attitude of people who believe that the value of the internet lies in software, because that assumption is exactly what the providers of LLMs are making. Let them see for themselves what their software can accomplish on its own.