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I will meet with friends irl, always a treat.

Though I have tasks I should be doing, always a source of anxiety. (I know I should just do the tasks but... that's not how this works, okay!?)

The card says moops after all...

This is a reference to one of the episodes within Innuendo Studios' The Alt Right Playbook series, and more generally how people talk emotionally not on top of but in place of logic - exactly as AI does today except these kids have been doing it on the Internet since Eternal September and more widely speaking since before human beings were homo sapiens.

i.e. it's not going away anytime soon, and since we keep throwing out all of the old wisdom, we'll need to find replacements, as we FAAFO all this live. e.g. Lemmy threw out karma as some kind of measure of someone's age and popularity, but... what does it offer to replace what karma was used for, on forum boards that even predated Reddit by decades? Nothing, which makes this akin to 4chan where the burden of examining each and every message purely on its own merits a daunting and dare I say grueling task at scale, especially for mods and admins.

Lemmy was only ever going to work as a tiny forum board - it simply refuses to grow.

Then again, Reddit is somehow worse so... again, brace yourself, because the next wave is coming!

Brace yourself: it is about to get worse. r/RedditAlternatives has some interesting posts saying how Reddit is about to ditch their modmail in exchange for their "chat" function (that has never worked correctly... ever).

Apparently all/most social media these days has taken an extremist turn - e.g. supporters of Luigi feel emboldened to rant and rave against instance admins and mods by virtue of the "righteousness" of their cause, ignoring things such as how dubvee.org is located in the USA, and therefore the instance admin could end up in an actual, irl and literal concentration camp by allowing that content onto their machine. Shutting his instance down is the only sane option in that context.

Whereas him leaving is just for personal reasons of being burnt-out, as we can well understand - humans can so exceedingly toxic and Lemmy, by virtue of connecting humans, can thus be a conduit to a great deal of shit (especially directed at an admin/mod).

You are on PieFed.social, so you do not have "frontends" like Lemmy does, you (we) have "themes" - go to Account -> Settings -> Themes, like Trans Pride, Card Shadow, etc. I use "PieFed".

The developer in question specifically declined remuneration - he enjoyed his day job and did not want to quit it, and just was happy to share both his code (Tesseract) and instance (dubvee.org) with anyone, completely free of charge.

https://dubvee.org/about#donations :

I built Tesseract in my spare time as a hobby, learning excercise for Svelte, and to address my own personal annoyances with Lemmy and other Lemmy UIs. That said, I do not feel the need to accept donations for its development.

However, if you really want to donate, please consider donating to one of the following:

Xylight: They are the author of Photon from which Tesseract was forked who also did a lot of the heavy lifting for much of the core. While I've replaced a lot of it, none of my work would have been possible without theirs.

As a totally third party here, may I say thank you for your efforts at explanation? Far too often social media can be too aggravating for (some) people not involved in the initial conversation to even want to read (ahem Reddit cough; btw also fuck spez cough), and it is "room-temperature" comments like yours (i.e. not extremist/hyperbolic/aggravating) that allow people to keep going.

They absolutely saw it coming - and have been continually posting about it for several years now. This was an experiment, and he is saying that it has now finally failed - not that after multiple years on Lemmy that it finally dawned on him that people can be mean on the internet.

In his latest message he even goes into some depth as to why it failed: it used to be containable, but after lemm.ee's shutting, all those trolls shifted over to other instances, and he simply does not have the heart to try and figure out which spammers and such that used to have one name (that he had blocked so their messages did not appear on his instance) now have an entirely different, unrelated name but are still up to their old tricks.

Which is important considering that he lives in the USA and could be carted off in a van someday without warning, just for the extremist leftist content that he chooses to host on the machine registered to his irl name (even if deriving from an outside source - but they will not care about that, only that Dear Leader's name has been besmirched).

You might have read it in reverse? He started by asking for help from additional admins, then switched to wanting to shut it down and just be done with the Fediverse completely.

If he comes back, it will be on Beehaw or some such.

It is true that I ignored colloquialism.

Although... tbh that might be the least accurate definition?

Actually... "science" is a process of discovery about the natural world. To then use that knowledge gained would be engineering.