Good thing about the Fediverse is that, even on an instance you aren’t a huge fan of, the rest of the Fediverse mostly still works. You can hang out on some other instance, and it doesn’t really matter.
This is the one thing that’s felt “different” than my other web adventures.
I’m very worried about the Fediverse’s health, but I think that aspect is good.
Yeah, as a user, it’s great to have options. If I was just an ordinary user, this probably wouldn’t even faze me. I’d hop over to Piefed.ca or something.
Unfortunately, I run several large comms who I managed to just about get to functioning without me…
… three times, so far, just before having to migrate and start the process all over again.
I don’t know. Maybe I’ll feel different in a few months. But the effort seems Sisyphean at this point. If I do it again, will I just be moving them again in a year’s time? Fuck that. The gods can keep their punishment.
I for one do hope you come back, but I completely understand. I had to learn my own limits on involvement in social media to keep it from becoming an unpaid job
Honestly, only HistoryRuins/InhabitedBeauty really felt joblike (and I only started those because I couldn’t find where to put a handful of cool pictures - and then didn’t want the comms to die of inactivity, so I kept up the daily posting DX), and to a lesser degree, Shermanposting (mostly because I started to run dry and had to search ever-deeper for new Sherman memes XD), and HistoryArtifacts insofar as I fucking hate sourcing but recognize that you kind of have to with artifacts.
Everything else, I loved doing, honestly.
But I can’t do it even on the comms I enjoy posting in with low feedback all over again. The conversations are one of the best parts of posting. I could do this as-is for three more years, but… I can’t start from scratch again. That is too joblike.
I did it the first three times because I wanted to help the Fediverse grow, but… a guy’s got limits, unfortunately.
Good thing about the Fediverse is that, even on an instance you aren’t a huge fan of, the rest of the Fediverse mostly still works. You can hang out on some other instance, and it doesn’t really matter.
This is the one thing that’s felt “different” than my other web adventures.
I’m very worried about the Fediverse’s health, but I think that aspect is good.
Yeah, as a user, it’s great to have options. If I was just an ordinary user, this probably wouldn’t even faze me. I’d hop over to Piefed.ca or something.
Unfortunately, I run several large comms who I managed to just about get to functioning without me…
… three times, so far, just before having to migrate and start the process all over again.
I don’t know. Maybe I’ll feel different in a few months. But the effort seems Sisyphean at this point. If I do it again, will I just be moving them again in a year’s time? Fuck that. The gods can keep their punishment.
I for one do hope you come back, but I completely understand. I had to learn my own limits on involvement in social media to keep it from becoming an unpaid job
Honestly, only HistoryRuins/InhabitedBeauty really felt joblike (and I only started those because I couldn’t find where to put a handful of cool pictures - and then didn’t want the comms to die of inactivity, so I kept up the daily posting DX), and to a lesser degree, Shermanposting (mostly because I started to run dry and had to search ever-deeper for new Sherman memes XD), and HistoryArtifacts insofar as I fucking hate sourcing but recognize that you kind of have to with artifacts.
Everything else, I loved doing, honestly.
But I can’t do it even on the comms I enjoy posting in with low feedback all over again. The conversations are one of the best parts of posting. I could do this as-is for three more years, but… I can’t start from scratch again. That is too joblike.
I did it the first three times because I wanted to help the Fediverse grow, but… a guy’s got limits, unfortunately.
I’ve considered moving from lemmy.world a few times (including to piefed), and in hindsight I’m glad I didn’t.
lemmy.world is ugly and basic… but so am I. :/
It just worked when I started and it still just works.