Zionism is when you think Israel is a pariah state. How interesting.

A... weird decision, if I may say so.

Thanks for the reply. You know, when I think of "enshittification," I usually think of it in the original sense, which I understand to be the capitalist milking of an idea / enterprise / product in order to extract additional profit, meanwhile cheapening it until it's eventually little more than a useless, dried out husk. Sort of an Invasion of the Body-Snatchers thing, yeah?

In this case it seems like Rimu specifically explained why the vote-capping update was made and what it was for, which IIRC was to help prevent PF sites from getting bogged down with too much data to track, which can actually impact server performance. I.e., not for profit, but for sustainability. Perhaps a reminder that not every step forward in PF development is going to be positive for every user; some can indeed be annoying.

I mean, there are whole philosophies built around such existential group-lifting, right?

Anyway, what kind of vote-cap number would you actually be happy with? As a patron, this is something which I feel I could bring up with yon dev. I feel like it would actually be worth paying for if we could boost that number until it worked for both he and you.

I think I speak for everyone here when I say that we love your contributions, and I personally feel like they add a lot of value to the FV. Plus of course, I'd certainly rather see you contented here than annoyed with the project.

He’s in a better place now

Lol... I like you in general, Skullgrid, but dude... get a grip, please. XD

you need to carry his torch

Which I've been doing, as I can. May I ask the same about your efforts, Mssr..?

Which I’ve been doing, as I can. May I ask the same about your efforts, Mssr…?

I'll have you know I shitposted in historymemes not two months ago, and something in a trek comm last month. OC mind you.

Lol… I like you in general, Skullgrid,

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but dude… get a grip, please. XD

It's a joke.

It's a minor annoyance, to try to upvote things and see nothing happen because you hit some arbitrary cap. But interacting with commenters was one of the joys of my time here, even just in small things like upvoting them, since giving inane comment replies like "Thank you!" or "I agree!" evokes anxiety from me rather than giving joy.

BRB I've got an omelet to peel off my face!

What made you switch instances to piefed in the first place?

I was never a fan of the Lemmy developers, who engage in a... concerning amount of genocide and atrocity denial. In fact, I didn't want to swap to Lemmy.world to begin with - I originally picked Kbin despite Lemmy fitting my aesthetic preferences better. But when Kbin went down permanently, I wanted to move all my comms quickly so they didn't die, and Mbin's main instance at the time was... not federating well.

So when Piefed started to become stable, I saw an opportunity to move away from the Lemmy software, whose devs were constantly asking for money even on non-ML instances (as is normal and is necessary for software development - but again, that's exactly why I wasn't comfortable with Lemmy. You're either a free-rider or helping support the ideals of the ideologically repugnant). Rimu seemed reasonable in my brief chats with him at the time - and I still don't think he's unreasonable, per se, just with very... core disagreements about what direction Piefed should be going (ie the notion that 'power users' are undesirable and should be limited) and what that will lead to, especially the aforementioned enshittification of my own, personal experience.

Thank you for the insight. I've been on mbin for a while now and can say that I enjoy it. It does lack some features (like blocking domains), but it's quite pleasurable to use now. The upside is that it also can see mastodon and peertube and pixelfed. So far, I haven't read anything concerning about the devs nor any plans for limiting power-users.

Maybe they might be a good fit (and hopefully be the final switch, if you're still thinking about it).

Good luck! I hope you can still enjoy the fediverse.