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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 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago

I appreciate the offer, but the issue isn't control. I could shop around for a new instance that looks stable (though, for the record, I would still probably prefer a Piefed instance - no offense to Lemmy.today) if I had the morale left to migrate my comms and build them back up, but I just... I don't. I've built them up three times, and I'm tired of rolling that boulder up the mountain. I don't have it left in me, especially since all three times it was just as they were beginning to become self-sustaining without me. It's... immensely demoralizing, and I don't have it left in me.

Maybe I'll feel different in a few months, but... I don't know, man. At some point, I have to ask myself the definition of insanity, and as much as I enjoy posting in active historical comms, getting them to the point where I'm not the only participant is long and tedious, and I just...

... feel like if it's not one thing, it's another. Kbin and lemm.ee went down. Dbzer0 shifted towards the tankies and bizarre clique shite. .world won't stop making amateurish admin mistakes. Now Piefed is playing "experiments in anti-social-media"...

Whether the Threadiverse itself has a future is a different question entirely - I suspect that it does, and that's a good thing.

But can I discern which currently-extant instance will be standing as-is in a year's time? Or will there be some fucking bullshit that comes up again, setting me back to square one trying to rebuild comms for a topic that there isn't a lot of organic growth for in the Threadiverse; comms that I can't just start and leave and act like a normal poster if I want it to have more than a dozen fucking upvotes and a post a week?

That question is... an extra weight on the already demoralizing prospect of moving, and one that I just...

... would rather not have to answer.