Some will cheer, some will be mildly disappointed. But I’m out, I think.
This fucking sucks but I get it. Been thinking the same. You made this place better and we are at a loss now!
Whatever you get into ma it bring you happiness and prosperity!
What’s another good instance that isn’t Lemmy and backed by tankies?
Twitter?
Beehaw
Host your own?
You’ll be greatly missed. Thanks for everything.
This can’t be happening
NO! Please! Say it ain’t so!
More than mildly disappointed to hear, though I totally understand. Yours was, in my opinion, the best content on the Fediverse. You will be sorely missed, and I hope where you go next ends up a more peaceful and less disruptive experience. o7
Ah, we’ll miss you. Your content is consistently some of the best out here.
The piefed admins are making a huge mistake with this change, and they’re basing it on bad statistical methods. Every user already only gets one vote per post or comment, so it really doesn’t matter if some users exercise that ability more than others. So framing it the same way as wealth disparity (literally using the same kind of chart) was not very insightful.
And to think I was considering switching to piefed soon… guess not anymore…
I’m OotL, does anyone have a link to whatever is being referenced here?
I’m glad I didn’t jump over right away. I was going to, and then things started getting weird and uncomfortable with it.
Thank you for your service Pug o7
I migrated 3 times this month. From world to blahaj (that one missing downvotes) to piefied.
I’m kinda done with this “fediverse” thing to be honest. It’s cool and all that you can “just create own instance if you don’t like it”, but that like linux — we have shit load of distros and none of them work.
I am sorry that you are having such a hard time finding your way here. Fwiw initial migrations are common and relatively easy as you first find your way, and the vast majority of people here will tell the same story.
If you want to try just one more, PieFed.zip or Lemmy.zip (run by the same people) are the usual default instances to recommend to people these days. The latter would not be directly affected by it at all and the former could in theory except they’ve stated that they will reject this particular setting and disable it. They are SUPERB general-purpose instances if you aren’t looking for anything particularly specific. (Personally I’m a little put off by the usage of the .zip suffix as it has ties to Google, but realize that I’m probably both over- and under-thinking that, so please ignore my paranoia:-P)
Tbh, your choice of 3rd party app has a much greater impact on your experiences here than anything else. I don’t have much experience with those but do like Voyager - in fact I’m typing this in Voyager now. Perhaps give it a try?:-) It works with both Lemmy and PieFed so kinda doesn’t matter which of those two that you choose.
No ads!! People are nicer here!! Well, some are dicks as always but far less often than Reddit, it feels like. I hope you find a reason to stay. At least, I hope that this internal drama isn’t the reason that you decide to go - we argue bc we care about it. Be advised that the often-spoken secret to getting along in the Threadiverse/Fediverse is: block early, block often! On Reddit that has no chance of actually working, outside of small niche communities, but this is a small enough space that it ACTUALLY WORKS. Btw you can export and import your block lists as you migrate accounts, if you want to do so.
Lol Troll Harder
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What part of this is “troll”?
I can buy that you were frustrated with lemmy. But the bit about how ZERO Linux distros work is just pure bait, you’re on the Fediverse my dude! :-D
Just wanted to let you know how appreciated you are. Yours is the only username I recognize honestly, and I know it’s going to be good shit when I see it.
I understand burnout though. Can’t fault you for wanting to care of yourself. I encourage it, actually.
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How does the Piefed vote limit effect your communities there, Pug? Do you believe that most people will have already reached their limit per day and prevent them from upvoting any submissions on your comms?
The Piefed vote limit fundamentally screws my own user experience into a deeply frustrating one. Many of my upvotes are towards comments and replies on my own posts, so being unable to interact with a large number of my notifications, beyond some comment like “Thank you!” that becomes asinine after the 15th time or so in a day, makes my experience incredibly shitty.
If you’re asking “Why not migrate your account but keep the comms on Piefed.social?”, then the issue remains, it’s just less obvious on my end. The vote limiting in Piefed.social affects non-Piefed.social users; the instance would simply not count a, for example, Piefed.world PugJesus vote after the daily limit was hit. I could split my votes between multiple accounts, but I’m not sanguine that that won’t be coded against in a future update; and it also, again, makes my user experience shittier.
… as well as doubts as to how this will effect the long-term trajectory of Piefed.social, including its longevity, and a desire to not have comms I run on a self-sabotaging instance that will damage both the comms’ health and potentially end with me having to migrate from a Kbin-esque collapse anyway at a later date.
Hm. Are you sure you’d be drastically effected by this change? I just counted the comments made on all the posts you made 9 days ago (all made in the same day) as 73 (though I’m unsure what the average you would receive in a day is). Assuming you upvote every single one of those comments, that still leaves you 167 votes left over in that day for posts and comments in threads not made by you.
Do you have a rough idea of how many upvotes you may leave a day/session on lemmy?
No clue, but I hit the limit before the vote limit was even announced. I went to the Matrix channel, confused as hell, thinking it was a bug, and got told it was intentional.
In any case, 73 comments is without particularly discussion-heavy posts. On the 30th of June, for example, I had 93 comments in my posts on HistoryMemes alone, not including any of my other comms - or engagement on posts on the comm that aren’t mine, or my engagement on comms I don’t moderate.
Piefed so weird
I don’t know who would cheer, you’re one of the pillars of this ecosystem as far as I’m concerned and even though I don’t say it enough I always appreciate your efforts in keeping so many niche subs fed with constant content.
I totally get how you’re feeling, and I can’t blame you for being burned out. You’ve put in an insane amount of work over the years. I hope you find some time to rest.
You will be missed, and will be remembered for a long time.
Count yourself lucky lol. I know several and they aren’t good people to know. But yes this will definitely make the new feeds a lot lighter. And traffic overall go down. Neither of which are great.
