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!

I mean... , yeah. 🤪

People couldn't stand the thought of the lying "Demoncrats" (also not "fully" /s, in the objective sense that while I would not make that choice, people sometimes do call them that, plus also they legit do such all the time, like "Biden isn't senile" - yeah right!), and while they did not so much like Trump himself personally, they did take a gamble and rolled the dice a second time, playing (almost literally, if you know what I mean) a game of Russian Roulette, just on the off chance that even a stopped watch might do better twice a day than Kamala.

The liberals really gotta work on branding. "You should eat your vegetables" only works for so many people, leaving vast swaths of centrists to prefer to simply not vote.

I will say this about the Republicans: recently they are better at the game of politicking, with all that that entails. Yes they will eventually eat their own and tear it all down, but in the meantime they pitch a bigly tent (using the best words - this one phrase is /s! 😜) and welcome anyone to vote for them to get into power, and then they only betray them after that, not preemptively as Biden did by lying about his merely being sick. The art of compromise and many other skills seem to have been lost, and both sides are the same at least in one respect: both have been primarily relying upon the badness of the other side to win, less so any inherent goodness in their own. (But it did not need to be this way - Democrats set up HUGE infrastructure projects, and made gains in health - not so much healthcare itself obviously but like COVID policies - etc. These stories should have been TOLD more often and harder, but instead everyone focused on Biden's dementia, which tbf Trump did legit hide better than him, at the time.)

So tankies aren't even lying (all the time), as there is a hidden truth behind that - and then more lies behind that, but after that... maybe some truth again? Except I can't quite wrap my brain around the alternative fact that Russia is not an expansionist empire that invaded Ukraine, and instead the poor victim of aggressive Ukraine that somehow invaded them? Yeah, nevermind, even though a clock is correct twice a day, that does not mean that I should bother even so much as glancing at it if I want to know the time! 😂

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.

fedia.io is Mbin, so can receive basically infinite upvotes.

Only certain PieFed instances are shadow-censoring offered upvotes, and unfortunately the feature is enabled by default (opt-out rather than opt-in).

Welcome back! Even if only for a brief hello:-).

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.

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.

@flamingos@feddit.uk

Not many people read instance rules, so you may want to highlight the rule against genA"I" content in the community sidebar, to preemptively avoid confusion?

Lol - I had no idea it was AI. Came up on a free image search for "Superpug", grabbed it based on what I saw on the thumbnail and posted. Thought it was a fitting response to the Superman clip above.

Not that I give a shitpost, but explains why it got so many downvotes tho...

I got you covered fam!

At least as well as the dog in this 9-year-old pic was!

Sure why not. It doesn't happen very often anyway, AI people are pretty good at keeping to their own spaces here.

Vastly superior. I salute you sir.

Your Holy One was the guy who spammed like 200 low effort memes a day and banned people he disagreed with? Okay...

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 😭

Yay - fuck AI "art"! 😚

The dog is even sad and bemused, much like our beneficent PJ must feel as well.

And I also salute you as well!

The genocide supporter who thought that bombing kids was fine as long as it was The Blue Team doing it? Why would we want them back?

Just like human jesus did with all of my prayers and supplications 😔

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?

Ah, genocide supporter is when you think Israel is a pariah state that should be treated as such.

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.

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.

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. Perhaps a reminder that not every step forward in PF development is going to be positive for every user; some can indeed be annoying.

I mean, there are whole philosophies built around such existential group-lifting, right?

Anyway, 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 yon dev. 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.

He’s in a better place now

Lol... I like you in general, Skullgrid, but dude... get a grip, please. XD

you need to carry his torch

Which I've been doing, as I can. May I ask the same about your efforts, Mssr..?

Which I’ve been doing, as I can. May I ask the same about your efforts, Mssr…?

I'll have you know I shitposted in historymemes not two months ago, and something in a trek comm last month. OC mind you.

Lol… I like you in general, Skullgrid,

❤️

but dude… get a grip, please. XD

It's a joke.

It's a minor annoyance, to try to upvote things and see nothing happen because you hit some arbitrary cap. But interacting with commenters was one of the joys of my time here, even just in small things like upvoting them, since giving inane comment replies like "Thank you!" or "I agree!" evokes anxiety from me rather than giving joy.

That I hit the cap before it was even announced made me suspect that it would be a frequent frustration going forward, and one I simply had no intention of dealing with.

BRB I've got an omelet to peel off my face!

What made you switch instances to piefed in the first place?

I was never a fan of the Lemmy developers, who engage in a... concerning amount of genocide and atrocity denial. In fact, I didn't want to swap to Lemmy.world to begin with - I originally picked Kbin despite Lemmy fitting my aesthetic preferences better. But when Kbin went down permanently, I wanted to move all my comms quickly so they didn't die, and Mbin's main instance at the time was... not federating well.

So when Piefed started to become stable, I saw an opportunity to move away from the Lemmy software, whose devs were constantly asking for money even on non-ML instances (as is normal and is necessary for software development - but again, that's exactly why I wasn't comfortable with Lemmy. You're either a free-rider or helping support the ideals of the ideologically repugnant). Rimu seemed reasonable in my brief chats with him at the time - and I still don't think he's unreasonable, per se, just with very... core disagreements about what direction Piefed should be going (ie the notion that 'power users' are undesirable and should be limited) and what that will lead to, especially the aforementioned enshittification of my own, personal experience.

Thank you for the insight. I've been on mbin for a while now and can say that I enjoy it. It does lack some features (like blocking domains), but it's quite pleasurable to use now. The upside is that it also can see mastodon and peertube and pixelfed. So far, I haven't read anything concerning about the devs nor any plans for limiting power-users.

Maybe they might be a good fit (and hopefully be the final switch, if you're still thinking about it).

Good luck! I hope you can still enjoy the fediverse.

The Muslims of the world uniformly reject the accusations of genocide against China, the majority of Muslim nations have sent delegations in person to investigate. They have more credibility than any western nation on the topic, they disagree with you and you have no evidence, you are wrong, simple as.

Every 2nd post in their long post history is anti socialist or anti communist.

PJ--
https://piefed.social/u/PugJesus

It would be utterly absurd for me to try to fully analyse your decision, based on the above, plus everything else, but given that-- c'mon, mate... you burned out upon a great cause, didn't you?

For my part, I'm doing what I can upon various History subs in question. A fucking idiot trying to slowly find interesting material amongst the daisies, let's say. 😄