Some will cheer, some will be mildly disappointed. But I’m out, I think.

  • sga@piefed.socialMEnglish
    2·
    il y a 3 jours

    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.

  • PugJesus@piefed.socialOPEnglish
    9·
    il y a 6 jours

    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.

  • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    il y a 7 jours

    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.

  • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
    131·
    il y a 7 jours

    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.

    • PugJesus@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      111·
      il y a 7 jours

      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.

      • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        il y a 7 jours

        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.

  • notabot@piefed.socialEnglish
    7·
    il y a 6 jours

    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.

  • Kovukono@pawb.socialEnglish
    6·
    il y a 6 jours

    I’m sorry if this misses you, but your memes and wonderful breakdowns of history always made me smile. Thank you for everything.

  • weariedfae@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    il y a 6 jours

    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!

  • Hemuphone@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    il y a 6 jours

    Thank you for making fediverse so much more enjoyable all this time. Sad to see you leave, but totally understandable.

  • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    il y a 5 jours

    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.

  • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
    5·
    il y a 7 jours

    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.

    • PugJesus@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      141·
      il y a 7 jours

      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.