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!

  • blarghly@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    23 days ago

    Unfortunately, the issue is that, well, no one is getting paid to run instances.

    They are run by individuals or small groups who happen to have an unusually large amount of free time, and often an axe to grind. But it turns out, standing up instances, troubleshooting, dealing with drama and assholes - it is kind of a lot of work. Maybe not alot-alot - but once your instance is big enough, still a lot. And so any given instance owner will ask themselves, after spending 30 minutes deleting cp and racist comments - why am I doing this? And they have a reason… but eventually, that reason doesnt live up to the annoyance, and they call it quits.

    If, on the other hand, there was money to be made by doing this work, they would be far more likely to put the effort in, and to putting the effort into finding a replacement when they felt like calling it quits.