Et tu, Piefed? Then fall, PugJesus!

I’m just wishing him goodbye and good luck on whatever he spends his (newly copious amounts of free) time on next.

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 shitposting

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.

Stop, 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.

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.

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

Pour one out for the Pug, he was the best of us

I'll never forget him.

PugJesus: I'm not dead. I'm just doing other hobbies now.

It's like I can still hear his voice 🥲

Top link doesnt work. I'm so sad to see PugJ go. I've always loved history and learning more with his posts. Its been fun, feels like an end to an era.

Damn, pugjesus was basically an institution here. I'll miss his posts. Well I wish him luck

I only had a couple interactions with PJ, but they were always good and I liked the content he posted. It was a good time, hope he is content with whatever he ends up doing.

I didn't realize they were leaving. @PugJesus@piefed.social, we'll miss you! You always provided such joy to see around here :)

Nooooooooooo I loved their posts

Dammit

Well balls

I made a note of their instance admins' fuckery being the last straw. A good enough reason to not rely on piefed.social in my book.

Bye puggie. May you explain history memes in "real life" whereever that may be

I 'member.

PJ... 😢

This makes me sad. Then I get a doughnut. I’m still sad, but now I’m sad with sugar on my fingers.

Pug and I disagreed on plenty, but it's a shame to see him go. I don't think Rimu is in the right on this one.

There are only two reasons I open Lemmy every day: PugJesus' history memes and Ickplant's cute animals pics.

It pains me to say so, but the Fediverse never took off and I fail to see a reason to stay engaged. Without you, this place will look a lot more empty.

Thank you for all the wonderful years of history-posting, Pug.

Well, damn. I enjoyed his posts.

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.

Kkkracker down! 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

I really hope we don't stop posting about history and turning old painting into memes from now on. We (slow poster) needs to take it up.

He will not be missed. His mission in life was Zionism and spreading US propaganda.