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Okay, maybe I'm missing something? But it seems like the recent backlash upon our dev trying out caps upon our votes is just... WTF!? (piefed.social)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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IIRC, PF-dev Rimu recently explained exactly why he was trialing such limits in a recent software update post. I.e., to create a more efficient internal & external software / HW backbone, for us users, AFAIK. Based on network / host / server loads etc, as I read the updates.

But yeah... the amount of recent negative reaction so far upon that seems... weirdly outsized?
(like, WTF?)

Like-- who the heck comes here exhausted upon corporate social media, and expects a free, open-source community of devs not to tinker with the road-posts and such..?

Pardon my puzzlement here, but I'm a happy PF contributor, and love @PugJesus@piefed.social. Both the dev here and PJ are friends of a sort, and some people I will always try to support.

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[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's supposedly part of the justification for the quota, but it hasn't been shown or proven those top 3% or whatever are engaging in any malicious behavior. And it brings me back to "why not just investigate that 3% and deal with them individually? Or make reporting/tools to examine the behavior of those "problematic" 3% of users?

I've been outside working in the heat, so the best comparison I can come up with at the moment is how ISPs use the top 3% of power users to justify data caps for everyone.

*3% used as a "low percentage of users" since I don't remember the exact numbers from the explanation post about this.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social -5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Mate, what "Iced Raktajino" level of anything possibly matches that level of hostile insecurity..?