What happened?

i miss history ruins

Goodbye Post

Looks like their Piefed instance incorporated a vote limit impacting a users ability to interact with their audience, and the holy one just threw up their hands at the thought of having to migrate due to instance dumbfuckery again.

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Aw. Booo.

What a weird policy decision. I don't think the Fediverse needs artificial scarcity or austerity.

I don't understand. A vote limit? As in a user can't vote more than X amount of times per day or something? If so, how does that impact the ability to interact with their audience?

Nah, dude got a bit too anti-comm for my liking.

The holy one had many followers, and often had more than 250 people to bestow their blessed upvote upon. Pedantry should never get in the way of good works.

You speak of the one who is to bring balance to the fedi.

Guys he's still around, from time to time. He's probably listening right now

If he is, I hope he knows the Fediverse reached out and touched faith...

You had to appreciate him when he was here. He's in a better place now, and you need to carry his torch

Meh...

At first i was pleased to see the content. Plenty of cool pics of old things.

A lot of it was just reposting low effort memes, which is not at all a problem, it's just no great loss.

But the more i interacted with them, the more i saw long waffly comments without a firm point. Or saw them arguing in favour of common misconceptions, or in favour of outdated "heirarchies are a good thing" understandings of history, or in favour of arguments that more recent research casts a lot of doubt on.

What's the legacy of a profilic poster of middling content? Prolific is good, fediverse needs content. But the content itself was no great loss.

If I never see an elegabalus meme again, it will be too soon.

Have you ever met a pug? They're ALL like that. Try arguing philosophy with one - you'll end up with piss all over your shoes.

But I ask you this, how many pugs post historical content in meme format?

We only know of one, a most extraordinary one, one who only wanted to upvote more.

Now, because of Piefed's pedantry, Dog has abandoned us, and you're saying good riddance because he got some mud on the carpet once. Shame on you, sir. I hope you have the wisdom to never own pets.

A lot of it was just reposting low effort memes, which is not at all a problem, it’s just no great loss.

Piefed/Lemmy is my main social media. So I didn't see those memes on insta or r$ddit or facebook etc, I only saw them here. So to me, it is indeed a great loss because now I don't see them at all.

the more i interacted with them

Yeah, I agree that PJ got in arguments that left me thinking: Why? But everyone on the fediverse is a little eccentric, and he is definitely one of us.

I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong. They are a fine human with a long track record of quality, intelligent content and discourse. Rethink your position, human.