Some will cheer, some will be mildly disappointed. But I’m out, I think.
I am sorry, I just found this thread (i have been less active online since i got employment, sorry). I have heard some bad stuff bout you bud, but in all my interactions with you have been great. we may have some political differences on some things (not going into that intellectual masturbation here), but I do mean this sincerely - thank you.
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.
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.
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! :)
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.
I’m sorry if this misses you, but your memes and wonderful breakdowns of history always made me smile. Thank you for everything.
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!
Quick! Let’s build an iron curtain to contain him!
Thank you for making fediverse so much more enjoyable all this time. Sad to see you leave, but totally understandable.
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.
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.
My federated social network is ruined.
Oh shit I’ll be sad to see you go
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.
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.
Removed by mod
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.
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.
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.
