PugJesus
History Major. Cripple. Vaguely Left-Wing. In pain and constantly irritable.
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321·13 hours agoThe 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.
Life is entropy, I guess. Sorry if that adds an unneeded existential crisis to what you’re already dealing with, but it’s the truth. Stable systems/conditions are a myth.
Yeah, but some conditions are less unstable than others. I don’t mind so much participating in something that has a decent chance of being radically different - or dead - in ten years. In one year? That’s… a level of instability that is much less appealing.
Absolute stability might be a myth, but there’s still a difference between modern Finland and Sengoku Jidai Japan.
I know you said you don’t have another migration in you, and I’m not going to try to convince you otherwise. But if you ever change your mind, sopuli seems pretty chill. I honestly don’t know much about it, but that’s exactly what I mean. I’ve literally never seen or heard anything from the sopuli admins. For all I know they don’t even exist. They do of course, somewhere in the background, but they’re very hands-off. I think they’re based in Finland.
Honestly, my move to Lemmy.world was only out of the hope that Kbin’s demise might be temporary. I’m… in general averse to instances using Lemmy, not because of admins, but because of the devs. Even right now, there’s a massive banner of the genocide-denying fascist devs of Lemmy begging for money on Sopuli.
My move from Piefed is based on my user experience (and, to a lesser degree, the user experience of others, which will likely inhibit growth and the long-term health of the system). My move from Lemmy was fundamentally on moral grounds - I’d prefer to minimize the help I give to fascists like the devs, even indirectly.
I’ve certainly never heard anything bad about the Sopuli admins, but I’m definitely not moving back to a Lemmy instance.
Re-creating the comms I run on a different instance.
Most of my activity is in those comms, and there’s not a lot in the way of alternatives for most of them, topic-wise.
It is, at present, instance-specific, or at least, opt-out by admins. My issue is that I don’t have the morale to migrate all my comms to another Piefed instance. I’m done. The instability in the Fediverse has done me in. I’m not stable enough myself to deal with it.
Now if you try to cast over a certain amount of up/downvotes a day, you will not be allowed to by the code.
The Piefed staff has said that the motivation is in keeping people from voting ‘too much’ - ie, that users who use Piefed ‘too much’ should use it ‘less’ in the interest of ‘fairness’ to other users.
Even if this is reversed, that attitude - not the first time the Piefed staff has expressed that thought, but the first time they’ve actually implemented something non-optional along those lines - suggests that issues like this will continue popping up, even if this voting limit ends up being removed by public outcry.
“When people tell you who they are, believe them the first time”, and all that jazz.
Right, sure, but I would spin up the infra and hand you the keys.
Being an admin is more than I signed up for, I have no understanding of server shit, and that just means the eventual possibility of instability is on me, as I’m not in the best health - or best country - to begin with. Health is what wrecked poor Ernest and Kbin, not decisions on his part, after all.
On top of that, the issue of migration I’m talking is not spinning up a new comm - that takes all of five minutes. It’s building the community back up. People don’t migrate with the community migration - comms ‘catch’ many casual users over the course of their existence who are nonetheless vital for its day-to-day functioning.
I appreciate that you want me here, but it’s certainly not that I feel driven off by the community. I just don’t have it in me to continue in unstable conditions, and all I see from the Fediverse, after my experiences here, is instability or the possibility thereof.
I appreciate the offer, but that runs into
I just don’t have a fourth [migration] in me.
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Even if I did have the motivation for a fourth migration, the whole notion of instability from decisions at-the-top in an instance means my experiences on the Fediverse have made me wary of how ephemeral any work I put in is going to be.
Unfortunately, the core issue in migration isn’t my account, but all the comms on Piefed.social that I run. Building a community back up so that posts have some basic level of engagement instead of languishing with three people having seen them is… a large task, and one I’m just not up to doing for a fourth time.
My posting is centered around a number of comms that are on Piefed.social. Thus, I’d have to move those comms if I wanted to keep using the Fediverse as I was, and that’s an arduous process. Basically building back up from scratch. I’ve done it three times so far, once when moving from Reddit, once involuntarily (when Kbin shut down), and once when moving from .world.
I just don’t have a fourth in me. And even if this reverses, I have no reason to believe that the Piefed admins won’t try something like this again, since they’ve made it clear it’s a fundamental part of their thinking about the future of their instance.
Even if I did have the motivation for a fourth migration, the whole notion of instability from decisions at-the-top in an instance means my experiences on the Fediverse have made me wary of how ephemeral any work I put in is going to be.
I wasn’t a power user on Reddit. I wasn’t even a particularly active lurker. So… I’ll go back to not being an active member of online communities. Return to doomscrolling Facebook and Tumblr without participation, I guess. Game more. I enjoyed sharing history on the Fediverse more than all of that, but not if my user experience is going to be shitty or require a reworking of my communities every year. At that point, I’d rather just keep to myself, and the Fediverse doesn’t have enough content for me to just be a satisfied lurker on here.
So. I’m out. Sorry to everyone who enjoyed me. I enjoyed sharing trivia, and had a good time here, but I can’t continue under these conditions. I wish the best to the Fediverse as a whole.
https://piefed.social/c/fediverse@piefed.social/p/2190040/who-decides-what-you-see-on-the-fediverse-a-look-at-voting-patterns
2·10 days agoNo group has yet claimed responsibility for the explosion, while investigations are ongoing.
Concerning. Unfortunately, considering the Syrian government’s many enemies, it could be nearly anyone.
Illegal information. How fantastic. /s
Jesus Christ.
6·11 days agoThose look very similar to me. I would say Japan is now where Poland will be in 10 years. Why it’s a problem for Japan but not Poland?
That’s the thing about population pyramids - they don’t just move up evenly. They’re adjusted by the ongoing mortality of each age group and the size of the next age group down. Poland and Japan are on the same trajectory, but Japan is, effectively, much further along. More ~30-40 years than ~10. The emphasis is less on the largest ‘boom’ generation, and much more on the general trend of the ‘youngest’ generations shrinking, growing, or being stable. In Poland, it’s uneven - closer to shrinking than stable, but more stable than Japan, which is only shrinking.
Even relatively small differences can have an outsized effect in making the older generations an ever-larger proportion of the population despite their lifetime mortality going up with each age bracket. Compare the percentages here. “Boom” generation aside, Japan’s retiree cohort is roughly 150% the youth cohort. That’s not a good sign. For Poland to end up with those numbers in a decade, it would have to have effectively no mortality in the elder cohorts - extremely unlikely.
That being said, it is a problem for Poland going forward - as well as many other developed countries.
It is, but not as bad. The EU’s birth rate is higher than Japan’s, and the EU is much more immigrant-friendly - and if that makes you suck in air through your teeth, let me clarify - that’s a relative estimation. SK and Japan are… infamously hostile towards immigration.
I don’t go in for sports ball, but I do enjoy the memes
I mean, South Korea and Japan’s birth rate is a serious problem.
The issue is less that they’re going ‘extinct’, and more that the population pyramid is gonna look real fucky going forward, and that comes with… economic issues. And potentially cultural issues.
Me, at 80 degrees: “A little chilly in here.”
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.