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Your Holy One was the guy who spammed like 200 low effort memes a day and banned people he disagreed with? Okay...
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our Piefeds, but in ourselves.
I still check in from time to time, check reports, make sure there's no spam. It's just that... I don't have the energy to move the comms again, and I don't want to put in the effort when the task on the Fediverse seems Sisyphean.
Spend less time moderating and more time giving us the contex on weird historical facts! I haven't learned anything since you've been absent. You are actively making me dumber by not hanging out anymore.
Things I have learned since making the plea above...
- People can handle a pug as Christ, but not as Superman.
- Apparently the Fediverse thinks you're both a fascist and a commie. This indicates that you're doing something right.
- You've been doing this all for us. This is clearly the problem, because we're grumpy ungrateful motherfuckers and keep rolling your boulder back down the hill. The solution? Trebuchets, coupled with a healthy dose of "I don't give a fuck if those mofos don't get out of the way this time".
- Some people clearly should never own pets.
But despite all the trials, trolls, and tribulations, you answered our call. My faith in Dog is restored.
Also, been following you since the kbin days. You're Fediverse famous now, dawg. That's almost 5% of the way to internet famous, and also means that when you leave, the Fediverse wilts like a first year history major trying to describe French-Indochina in the 50s. Like the Picard Maneuvar and Satan's Maggoty Cumfart, your pugly mug is now one of the faces of this place, and with you gone, we're stuck with maggoty cumfarts and star trek memes.
In other words, Reddit.
So, if your faith in what you post ever gets lost in the trolling, know that for every grumpy asshole, there's a faithful shitposter looking to you for inspiration, or at least directions to a quality copper merchant in ancient Sumeria.
May many respitorially challenged small dogs bless you, my child! ✋
I actually always felt very appreciated on here by most people! Sadly, it's purely an issue of energy. Rebuilding the audience on comms on another instance just is too much to do a fourth time. I do still wish the Fediverse the best!
Okay, I hate to lurk, PJ, but I admit that every couple weeks I check to see if you're still active on the FV, and I just caught the above. Yeah, and maybe that sucks that I can do so, because I don't believe there's a 'privacy of content mode' here yet, like on Reddit. No doubt coming soon, but still.
Cutting to the chase-- based on why you scaled things down here, may I ask you something?
If so, and based on Rimu insisting that there should be daily vote-capping for yadda-yadda technical reasons (implying that it absolutely has to be X number), what would you have been happy with as a compromise for X? Or was it moreso that you just hated the whole bloody concept and refused to cohabitate under such conditions?
I hate the concept on its own, don't get me wrong, but it was that I managed to hit it so quickly (before it was even announced) which soured me on staying. If my experience is going to be enshittified, I would rather just... not.
Contributing factors were concerns about how this would affect other 'power users' with their experiences likewise enshittified, and thus growth and sustainability; and the broader 'anti-social-media' posture it reflected.
It's social media on the internet, and on the Fediverse at that. I have no expectation of privacy for anything I post here, nor much desire for it, lmao.
Thanks for the reply. You know, when I think of "enshittification," I usually think of it in the original sense, which I understand to be the capitalist milking of an idea / enterprise / product in order to extract additional profit, meanwhile cheapening it until it's eventually little more than a useless, dried out husk. Sort of an Invasion of the Body-Snatchers thing, yeah?
In this case it seems like Rimu specifically explained why the vote-capping update was made and what it was for, which IIRC was to help prevent PF sites from getting bogged down with too much data to track, which can actually impact server performance. I.e., not for profit, but for sustainability. Kind of a reminder that not every step forward in PF development is going to be positive for everyone; some can be annoying.
So again, what kind of vote-cap number would you actually be happy with? As a patron, this is something which I feel I could bring up with him. I feel like it would actually be worth paying for if we could boost that number until it worked for both he and you.
I think I speak for everyone here when I say that we love your contributions, and I personally feel like they add a lot of value to the FV. Plus of course, I'd certainly rather see you contented here than annoyed with the project.
Totally understand - went through a similar period myself after kbin died - only now really getting my groove back.
To mitigate the issues with instance instability and mod dumbfuckery, I've been considering starting something self-hosted with ActivityPub integration (Wordpress plugin works okish), but it's a lot of work for the questionable payoff of being able to shitpost through the ages.
What the Fediverse really needs is a User Data Import/Export standard, where you can easily export your profile, communities, posts and comments to another instance.
But what I would say to you is that you've got enough name recognition and clout now that, if you get the energy to try again, your audience will travel with you. You don't necessarily need to rebuild what you built on Piefed on another instance - just move to a place where its easier to continue the parts of this that you enjoy doing, and the audience will follow.
I did the math, and it says that Threadiverse famous is only <0.001% of internet famous. Though for that I had to assume that every person on earth has access to the interwebs, so maybe it's twice that, so >0.001% then⁉️
And 5% is definitely >0.001% so actually, nvm, the math does check out after all.
Welcome back! Even if only for a brief hello:-).
I don’t want to put in the effort when the task on the Fediverse seems Sisyphean.
I definitely relate.
I'm trying to keep things manageable nowadays. A few posts per day, that's it. It makes it easier to handle.
History memes to a large hit, still waiting for the second coming of PugJesus
Guys he's still around, from time to time. He's probably listening right now
If he is, I hope he knows the Fediverse reached out and touched faith...
i miss history ruins 😢
You had to appreciate him when he was here. He's in a better place now, and you need to carry his torch
But he's going to come again in the Last of Days to deliver judgement unto evildoers, isn't he?
He's leaving me on read on matrix, he gone for good 😭
Just like human jesus did with all of my prayers and supplications 😔
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The Zionist guy?
Zionism is when you think Israel is a pariah state. How interesting.
Funding cuts. He probably got retasked to Bluesky or something.
Piefed is built around social credits and a karma system that favors homogenization. Unfortunately all this kind of shit gets really messy at scale. I understand trying to organize the chaos, but I think the thing that works about Lemmy is mainly that it's small, overlooked, and by some good fortune the number of assholes is relatively low in percentage currently. I'm not sure it could ever scale well more than 5x without becoming a cesspool. Until the walls start to implode, keeping it simple and open is for the best. Piefed is chasing it's tail.
What happened?
Looks like their Piefed instance incorporated a vote limit impacting a users ability to interact with their audience, and the holy one just threw up their hands at the thought of having to migrate due to instance dumbfuckery again.
What a weird policy decision. I don't think the Fediverse needs artificial scarcity or austerity.
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I don't understand. A vote limit? As in a user can't vote more than X amount of times per day or something? If so, how does that impact the ability to interact with their audience?
I don’t understand. A vote limit? As in a user can’t vote more than X amount of times per day or something? If so, how does that impact the ability to interact with their audience?
Basically, it made my experience as a user shitty, in part because I was a frequent poster and thus frequently had a number of comments on my posts which were generally positive contributions and I wanted to upvote.
A... weird decision, if I may say so.
The holy one had many followers, and often had more than 250 people to bestow their blessed upvote upon. Pedantry should never get in the way of good works.
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You speak of the one who is to bring balance to the fedi.
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