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

Things I have learned since making the plea above...

• People can handle a pug as Christ, but not as Superman.
• Apparently the Fediverse thinks you're both a fascist and a commie. This indicates that you're doing something right.
• You've been doing this all for us. This is clearly the problem, because we're grumpy ungrateful motherfuckers and keep rolling your boulder back down the hill. The solution? Trebuchets, coupled with a healthy dose of "I don't give a fuck if those mofos don't get out of the way this time".
• Some people clearly should never own pets.

But despite all the trials, trolls, and tribulations, you answered our call. My faith in Dog is restored.

Also, been following you since the kbin days. You're Fediverse famous now, dawg. That's almost 5% of the way to internet famous, and also means that when you leave, the Fediverse wilts like a first year history major trying to describe French-Indochina in the 50s. Like the Picard Maneuvar and Satan's Maggoty Cumfart, your pugly mug is now one of the faces of this place, and with you gone, we're stuck with maggoty cumfarts and star trek memes.

In other words, Reddit.

So, if your faith in what you post ever gets lost in the trolling, know that for every grumpy asshole, there's a faithful shitposter looking to you for inspiration, or at least directions to a quality copper merchant in ancient Sumeria.

Spend less time moderating and more time giving us the contex on weird historical facts! I haven't learned anything since you've been absent. You are actively making me dumber by not hanging out anymore.

I don’t want to put in the effort when the task on the Fediverse seems Sisyphean.

I definitely relate.

I'm trying to keep things manageable nowadays. A few posts per day, that's it. It makes it easier to handle.

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.

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But I ask you this, how many pugs post historical content in meme format?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

They'd post a lot of pretty lazy rightwing history memes, and are a pretty ardant anticommunist (buts par for the course in the anglosphere)

but also whatever they're just some guy, no strong feelings, there's more important things to worry about

But the more i interacted with them, the more i saw long waffly comments without a firm point.

I've been accused of many things over the years, but this is probably the first time I've been accused of waffling.

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.

lmao what