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)
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.