Friends, Lemmings, Piefeeders, lend me your ears. I come to bury @PugJesus@piefed.social not to praise him… Well, no, I DO come to praise him and I’m not burying him, I’m just wishing him goodbye and good luck on whatever he spends his (newly copious amounts of free) time on next. I always liked history since I was a kid. It was really awesome seeing this… this… FLOOD of posts about history here every day without fail, realizing that history was important to other people and that it could be fun and enlightening and half the time I wouldn’t know wtf a post was about and I’d end up spending half an hour on wikipedia reading up on it and I’d post a link in comments and it’d feel like I was taking part in things. Anyway I’d disagree with PugJ once in a while about various things, but PugJ always struck me as sincere and passionate regarding things they cared about, which is admirable.
PugJesus, it’s too bad that you’re cutting away from the threadiverse. Your posts greatly improved life here over the past couple years. I hope you will consider staying around in some capacity, perhaps even under a different name. But if not, that’s cool, I can understand that sometimes things are too much and you just have to step away.
My friend! May the spirit of a hundred Romans travel with you!
- edit: context: https://feddit.uk/post/52137875
- context: https://lemmy.world/post/36225769
- context: https://lemmy.world/post/17059069
- base image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Julius_Caesar_(Camuccini)
Et tu, Piefed? Then fall, PugJesus!
Heh, not as much new free time as you might think! One of the things I enjoyed about posting on here was that I could do it in little pockets of waiting while doing other tasks. But some hours freed up weekly, certainly. Sadly, I’ll probably fill it with games instead of anything useful, since all my other hobbies I’m pretty much full-up on. But there are worse fates! :p
Still would prefer history shitpostingStop, you’ll make me tear up.
One of the things I always hoped for when posting or writing an explanation was giving more than a chuckle (though I loved giving a chuckle) but connecting with and supporting the history enthusiasm of others.
In retrospect, I do wish I was less acrid at times. Not always. But some times.
If I come back, likely as not, it would be under the same name. My reputation is one thing I don’t fear - not least because I’ve earned it, for better and worse! A new name would eventually acquire just the same reputation from my cantankerous soul. :p
Gonna miss ya, PJ. May whatever break you take, however long it lasts, bring you the rest you need.
Your posts and presence will, perhaps fittingly, live on in the annals of fediverse history 🫡
I can respect not wanting to move instances again. Kinda reminds me of moving between social media back in the aughts. Friendster, Orkut, MySpace… Facebook wtf is this shit, I’m not doing it!
Still, no need to call it quits altogether. Just ignore the boulder-rolling aspects and give random history threads some PugJesus every now and then!
The big reason from my understanding is that piefed wanted less engagement and limits upvoting. If by my understanding the fediverse is instance based and federated into the feeds. Why hasn’t pugjesus spun up pugjesus@historymemes.world? Not to say pugjesus should or wants to spend his time, in addition to posting, maintaining a fediverse instance.
That last sentence. Maintaining an instance is a whole additional work load. Not only caring for the technical side of things, but also the additional side of moderation of a whole instance instead of only a community.
I have also really appreciated your posts!
Remember that rest is resistance, friend.
Thank you for everything you’ve done here, it won’t be the same without you 🥰
Not only loved your posts but more than once forced my spouse to look at them and listen to the full description :D
At least in this household you reached your goal. You’ll be missed!
Nahhh. It’s better for everyone involved if rightful annoyance comes through. The cult of civility is a gift to trolls - their steepest hurdle is being treated seriously, even when they’re just full of shit.
I hope you wander back into a less silly instance, on your own time. Gotta have somewhere to whinge about your other hobbies.
Well, like I said. Not always. Certainly I have no regrets of delivering biting remarks to genuine dipshits and bootlickers.
But I’m also acutely aware that my acidic tone activated on folks who may have been a bit on the stubborn side, but probably did not always deserve that level of response.
The quality of your posts lead me to read them whenever I saw them. Thank you.
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Even if you don’t run comms anymore we’d love to hear about cool history stuff you come across!
Your posts always got me interested in something new as someone who is starting to connect with history for kinda the first time in my life
I hope life treats you well, and should we see you in the future, I can’t wait to see what I might learn about ☺️
I’ve never really been interested in history. Your posts made me realise that was due to the crappy education system I grew up with rather than the topic itself. You should leave knowing you made a positive impact on some people :)
Aw. :(
Sad to see you go, PugJesus. Gonna miss you.
(╥﹏╥) You will be greatly missed, PugJ.
What if I donated an instance to you? Set everything up and gave you the keys basically? Maybe I could do basic maintenance too if you wanted
I appreciate the offer, but that just shifts the burden of long-term instance stability onto me (and you). A big part of instance stability is financial and admin health, so I would prefer to move to an established and somewhat successful extant instance.
The core issue isn’t that I don’t have anywhere I could move to, it’s that I don’t have the will left to move all my comms and build them back up again. Uncertainty over the longevity of any instance I move to is also a concern, but only a part of it. The main problem is that I’ve done this too many times and I don’t have it in me to do it again.