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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 2 days ago* (last edited 2 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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[–] Elting@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah I can see all those things too. I left reddit because it was too big and loud over there, and secretly I hope this place never has exponential growth. The quality of interactions here is so much higher and I think that it is directly because of being a smaller community. I know that not everyone shares that view though and most people would be glad to see many more users here. Still you are right that receiving fewer votes will be discouraging for some, and that will have a cooling effect.