Some will cheer, some will be mildly disappointed. But I’m out, I think.
I’ll be sad to see you go, PugJesus. Despite what a small number of (very) vocal detractors claim, I’ve had nothing but positive interactions with you. Your content was engaging and you were one of the few power users who actually participated in discussions in the comments under your posts.
You are by far the user I have most upvoted, currently sitting at 1846 upvotes and one downvote (no idea when that happened). It’s frequent contributors like you that have kept me sticking around the Fediverse these past few years - it’s a shame you’re now being punished for that very behavior.
I was only subscribed to HistoryMemes and its offshoots to read your detailed explanations in the comments, and you were always willing to follow up with more detail when prompted. I’ll probably drop those subscriptions with you leaving.
Here’s hoping you find your way back here someday. This place won’t be the same without you around.
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.
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.
Quick! Let’s build an iron curtain to contain him!
Oh shit I’ll be sad to see you go
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.
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.
That’s completly misinterpretating the purpose and ideas of the vote quota. I don’t understand your reaction on limiteng the vote from top voter.
The voting quota is set above the average vote made by users. So most of users won’t ever reach that limit. That meant 90% of users. For me it’s a good thing to limit our interaction a little and our influence on the fediverse.
But if you disagree with the choice made by piefed dev, you can try pylova from quokk.au. she will take a different path and it will fit everyone. ;)
That’s completly misinterpretating the purpose and ideas of the vote quota. I don’t understand your reaction on limiteng the vote from top voter.
The voting quota is set above the average vote made by users. So most of users won’t ever reach that limit.
“We want less engagement and participation from the top users on our instance” is still “We want less engagement and participation on our instance”
That meant 90% of users. For me it’s a good thing to limit our interaction a little and our influence on the fediverse.
… so yes, it’s exactly what the meme is saying. You want less engagement and participation on your instance.
But if you disagree with the choice made by piefed dev, you can try pylova from quokk.au. she will take a different path and it will fit everyone. ;)
I’m fucking through. I’ve moved my comms three times, building them up from scratch each time. I don’t have a fourth in me, and the Fediverse isn’t lively enough on my fields of interest for me to go without and just browse, even if I migrated only my account and not my comms.
I don’t have another comm move in me, and I no longer trust the Piefed.social staff going forward, even if this is reversed. It’s too big a breach in trust, and, what’s worse, in-line with prior stated values and thinking. Not just some fluke or half-baked impulse.
I just didn’t think those thoughts and values would be implemented into the fucking instance.
I’m out. I had three years, and they were fun, but this is it. You wanted fewer power users with ‘outsized influence’, enjoy one less.
… so yes, it’s exactly what the meme is saying. You want less engagement and participation on your instance.
If we post a lot, why not. Yet we are both the top posters but that’s not a good thing. I think that’s a good way to limit the power we have on the fediverse and let other people express their opinion.
Even if we know jot thing, share lot things, i wouldn’t mind if someone told me to slow down.
And i don’t know where you got this idea that it was different. Since the beggining piefed tell how much hour we are connected and have a blocklist on far right website.
I consider it as part of our wellness to limit use of our screentime. But maybe you need it much more than us to escape this reality and be with the people you love.
I’m fucking through. I’ve moved my comms three times, building them up from scratch each time. I don’t have a fourth in me, and the Fediverse isn’t lively enough on my fields of interest for me to go without and just browse, even if I migrated only my account and not my comms.
That’s both the curse and the joy of free software. I alway moved to follow my values even thought i lose a lot each time. In a sense that’s also why i dom’t blame reddit users, they have enough and don’t want to change. They just want to be there with their friends. Sorry if the recent change didn’t fit your needs. I though a pylova account would be enough for you (not migrating you communities). :(
Maybe you have an alternative idea to suggest to piefed dev but mind that’s not a post quota but a vote quota.
Anyway, i understand if people desagree, i didn’t suggest it but i agree with the core idea, the reasons behind it. If there is a counterargument, i can change my opinion.
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.
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.
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! :)
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.
wow, look at that!
the thing I complained about came true.
piefed was just a grift to kill federation.
PieFed is genuinely one of the biggest ruiners of an alt of reddit.
Instead of using one good software, Rimu felt it was important to make a platform that’s slower, ruined by horrid code, and then also act like a dictator while playing dumb.
PieFed is the biggest laugh on Activity Pub for a reason.
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
This is wrong on a lot of levels, it’s hard to begin where.
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.
