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PugJesus

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History Major. Cripple. Vaguely Left-Wing. In pain and constantly irritable.

Sorry to anyone I didn’t DM goodbye. I sorted people very ‘ad hoc’, and my own spotty focus and memory didn’t help. I recognized a lot of users in my time on here, and most of you I enjoyed very much. I think, in particular, I forgot some Slrpnk users.

Good luck, going forward. o7

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reply to: No one was going to waste expensive meat on slaves. in History Memes

Barley was a sign of degradation and poverty, but the dietary regimens of gladiators were often quite expensive. Pescatarianism was highly regarded by the Romans for both health and cultural reasons.

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reply to: What were roofs made of in ancient Greek temples? in European Graphic Novels++

Nah, no worries, it’s fine as-is. I only came here because I was summoned, and I don’t feel good about posting my own material as “best of” anyway.

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reply to: What were roofs made of in ancient Greek temples? in European Graphic Novels++

I meant if you wanted to edit the BestOfLemmy post. XD

Sorry mate, we’re bloody-well drowned in toxic fumes these days. Ontario fires.

Damn. Looking at that now.

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I did edit to add in my favorite example, if you want to update. I do love the story of dysentery. :p

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Many late-coming technologies are issues of concept. Slow-sand filters are incredibly simple, for example, but require an understanding that did not arise until the 19th century (some possible examples in Mesoamerica excepted). Gliders are not actually particularly difficult to acquire the materials or tools to make, especially in cultures that use kites, but require, again, an understanding of the principles involved to provide controlled flight (with gliders requiring precise balance of lift and drag, whereas kites primarily need only light weight and wind stability). Fire pistons are conceptually advanced and were not discovered in Europe until long after they were in Southeast Asia, despite some Southeast Asian cultures which produced and used fire pistons being literal stone-age cultures, in terms of available material tools.

Hot-air balloons, I would imagine, follow the same principle. If you lack the concepts behind the invention, the only way to discover it is by accident, which is generally unlikely. It’s why so much material development is concentrated in the modern and early modern period - we started to piece together how the world, on a fundamental level, works, beyond pure trial-and-error.

Also, hot-air balloons before plastics were often made of silk (and rubber), since most other materials are either too heavy (at least for practical purposes) or too thermally sensitive, and that’s an expensive experiment to be undertaking if you haven’t the first clue how it works.

EDIT: dammit, I forgot about the renewable combustible element in efficient form, necessary.

I mean, early 18th century AD hot-air balloons just used material burned on the ground.

EDIT: I forgot my favorite example! Oral Rehydration Therapy. Understanding how the body is dehydrated and rehydrated allowed doctors in the 19th century, through IV solutions, to drop dysentery (a legitimate killer) mortality rates from ~50% to ~30%. Very advanced, needles and such, understandable why it wasn’t stumbled upon sooner.

… come the 1950s or so, understanding how the body absorbs water led to Oral Rehydration Solution, dropping mortality from ~30% to ~2%.

It can be made with fruit juice, water, and salt. And no additional tools or advanced preparation or specialist administration needed. It’s mixed, and the patient just drinks it - oral rehydration.

Theory isn’t always flashy, but it is often stunning in its successes.

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Clay tiles, overwhelmingly. Most stone isn’t worth the effort to make into roof tiles; between the weight, expense, and the high rate of replacement (and preference for easy uniformity) needed in roof tiles, only slate is really consistently used for roofing. Other stone, like marble, was occasionally used as a ‘prestige’ project, but clay tiles can be easily and consistently precisely shaped and fitted, allowing for practical concerns like weight distribution and water runoff to be addressed, so it’s generally just not worth it. And marble doesn’t look all that much better in tile form, tbqh.

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Well, I’m too weak and sick to try to zoom in with my traditional power-glove diplomacy, so what do you figure you’ll do then, mate?

As I said in the post.

I’m leaving. I’m out. This is it for me.

I just don’t have the energy to undertake another instance migration with all my comms.

I’ll go back to doomscrolling Tumblr and playing more games, I suppose.

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(altho that’s still a lot voting, mate!!)

Sure, but it’s maybe two hours of browsing. I don’t browse for two hours every day, but when I do, I would like to not be frustrated by the experience.

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Not a ‘fraud’, in any way. Just a bad decision, and possibly poorly thought out in addition.

I know nothing about the technical side, though the fact that Rimu pivoted to a different explanation when pressed has me skeptical. But it very well could be that voting uses up some significant amount of ‘the commons’ in federating votes. I suspect the actual impact is minimal, though, considering that Piefed.social is the only instance that has even broached the issue, so far as I know, in the three years I’ve been on the Fediverse. And, as mentioned before, it’s trivial to ‘get around’, resulting in the same vote-federation burden as large numbers of votes with one account.

The other explanation offered by Rimu, which I regard as much more likely, is Rimu’s claim that it’s in some way unfair for a small number of users to make up such a large proportion of the Fediverse’s activity. I take him at his word on this - I think he genuinely believes that. No fraud involved. Just a view that power users are some form of ‘influencer’ whose activity is undesirable because it ‘sways’ the community towards the opinions of the most active users.

Rimu, I suspect, thinks that cutting down the tall poppies will just create a more even distribution. Instead, I suspect, it will either result in the former distribution proportion reasserting itself, just with a lower cap and a lower average (thus requiring another reduction of the cap, to ensure a small number of users don’t ‘dominate’ the activity - repeat ad infinitum, or until the instance is dead); or the ‘more even’ distribution being significantly lower in general from decreased activity, as the core function of social media - interaction with others - generates more activity from others as a knock-on effect. It’s self-feeding.

Or self-starving, in this case.

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Damn, I certainly can’t imagine voting 240x in a single day. There might remotely be that number of opportunities in my subscribed stream, but that would be like me forming an opinion upon every-goldurn thing that I possibly saw in that day. And beyond, really?

There are 303 comments in this post alone. If I have an opinion on 2/3s of them, I’m almost at the cap.

~300 comment posts are not the norm on the Fediverse, but I see a fair number of ~80 comment posts. If I run across two or three of them, suddenly I would have very few other opportunities to upvote.

Considering, on top of that, I post quite a bit and get a fair number of comments on each (I had ~90 comment replies to my posts on a pretty normal day’s output on HistoryMemes alone), it doesn’t take much browsing to hit 240 votes.

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Huh. Are we really defining “power users” as ones who vote a whole bunch every day? Because I’d never in a million years chance on that angle.

Power users are those who use a system a disproportionately large amount. Rimu explicitly said it was because the distribution of activity between the most active users (ten or so of us, if memory serves) and the majority.

This is not actually unusual in any online community, but it was apparently worth Rimu’s ire, even after being advised against it by several people, including a fellow Fediverse admin.

That’s not quite true as I understand it. No, I do believe the changes directly help with the stated goals of keeping down vote-brigading / botting and such. That’s some important shizzle that needs to happen no matter the implementation.

Rimu explicitly said that he didn’t think that the top ten users who he was targeting were bots or coordinated. Furthermore, as other people have pointed out, it’s trivially easy to set up a bot to circumvent the voting limit. The only people this punishes are people who are actually interested in interacting with the Fediverse on one account - in other words, the people least likely to be bots or bad actors.

For sure I didn’t realise that some here hit their vote limit, but what are the metrics on that?

I don’t know about the metrics, but I noted in my goodbye thread numerous users whose ‘vote quota’ bars were filled up. Most of them weren’t Piefed.social users, so they won’t even be aware that their votes are being rejected by Piefed.social. Their vote is shadow-banned, in a sense.

Is it maybe better for the cap to be lifted in to a sort of zone that meets both requirements?

What ’other requirement’ is there, if the problem was not and has never been botting or bad actors? The only two justifications offered by Rimu have been that it’s a ‘bad use’ of ‘the commons’ for people to vote so much; and that a small number of users should not make up such a large proportion of the Fediverse’s activity.

PJ, is just possible that you keeping up the unholy pace of contributing amazing content here on a daily basis possibly weared on you over time? Personally I know it’s been for me, altho I work in a different format. But three years is a hell of a long time to contribute to a free internet project intended for the public good.

No, not at all. Fact is, I miss it terribly, even only a week out. I miss posting much more than voting and browsing, even. But I’m also not going to be half-in and half-out, generating content but stripped of the ability to interact with the content of others on my own terms - terms that I’ve been interacting on for the past three years, and that has never been a problem - in any instance - until now. “I upvote what I like” is apparently no longer acceptable on Piefed.social, if you’re online ‘too much’.

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reply to: This is meant respectfully, see post body in RoughRomanMemes

Zionism is when you think Israel is a pariah state that should be treated like North Korea, apparently.

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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.

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Sending most people I genuinely remember seeing around a DM (slow going, poor morale; saying goodbye is always hard DX), but looks like I can’t send DMs to you. But you’re definitely one of the names I recognized and enjoyed seeing. o7

And anytime I saw you, all I heard in my head was “Maiq knows much!”

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That’s a lot. How it is limiting your activities as you told us earlier ?

I said, multiple times, that I hit the vote quota before it was even announced.

If you stop posting, that’s just the choice you made, that’s not due to the voting quota. You may claim it limit your activity because you disagree with this, but there is only yourself there.

“It only enshittifies one part of your experience! It’s your fault if that makes your overall experience not worth it!”

🙄

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reply to: This is meant respectfully, see post body in RoughRomanMemes

Well, like I said. Not always. Certainly I have no regrets of delivering biting remarks to genuine dipshits and bootlickers.

But I’m also acutely aware that my acidic tone activated on folks who may have been a bit on the stubborn side, but probably did not always deserve that level of response.

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reply to: This is meant respectfully, see post body in RoughRomanMemes

Zionism is when you think Israel is a pariah state that should be treated like North Korea, apparently.

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So I always said you lot were just funny words on a screen to me, but I did tear up a little reading your comments. I guess I’ll miss a number of you. It made me feel better about the time I spent here posting, and worse about leaving.

I wish I had it in me to keep going like the last few times.

Thanks. To all (or, rather, the vast majority) of you. It was because of you that I enjoyed my time on the Fediverse so much.

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reply to: Okay, maybe I'm missing something? But it seems like the recent backlash upo... in PieFed Meta

Well the vote quota is set above average normal human reaction. How it is not a tool to identify bot ?

240 votes in a day is not above ‘average normal human reaction’.

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Comments by PugJesus

reply to: No one was going to waste expensive meat on slaves. in History Memes

Barley was a sign of degradation and poverty, but the dietary regimens of gladiators were often quite expensive. Pescatarianism was highly regarded by the Romans for both health and cultural reasons.

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reply to: What were roofs made of in ancient Greek temples? in European Graphic Novels++

Nah, no worries, it’s fine as-is. I only came here because I was summoned, and I don’t feel good about posting my own material as “best of” anyway.

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reply to: What were roofs made of in ancient Greek temples? in European Graphic Novels++

I meant if you wanted to edit the BestOfLemmy post. XD

Sorry mate, we’re bloody-well drowned in toxic fumes these days. Ontario fires.

Damn. Looking at that now.

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I did edit to add in my favorite example, if you want to update. I do love the story of dysentery. :p

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Many late-coming technologies are issues of concept. Slow-sand filters are incredibly simple, for example, but require an understanding that did not arise until the 19th century (some possible examples in Mesoamerica excepted). Gliders are not actually particularly difficult to acquire the materials or tools to make, especially in cultures that use kites, but require, again, an understanding of the principles involved to provide controlled flight (with gliders requiring precise balance of lift and drag, whereas kites primarily need only light weight and wind stability). Fire pistons are conceptually advanced and were not discovered in Europe until long after they were in Southeast Asia, despite some Southeast Asian cultures which produced and used fire pistons being literal stone-age cultures, in terms of available material tools.

Hot-air balloons, I would imagine, follow the same principle. If you lack the concepts behind the invention, the only way to discover it is by accident, which is generally unlikely. It’s why so much material development is concentrated in the modern and early modern period - we started to piece together how the world, on a fundamental level, works, beyond pure trial-and-error.

Also, hot-air balloons before plastics were often made of silk (and rubber), since most other materials are either too heavy (at least for practical purposes) or too thermally sensitive, and that’s an expensive experiment to be undertaking if you haven’t the first clue how it works.

EDIT: dammit, I forgot about the renewable combustible element in efficient form, necessary.

I mean, early 18th century AD hot-air balloons just used material burned on the ground.

EDIT: I forgot my favorite example! Oral Rehydration Therapy. Understanding how the body is dehydrated and rehydrated allowed doctors in the 19th century, through IV solutions, to drop dysentery (a legitimate killer) mortality rates from ~50% to ~30%. Very advanced, needles and such, understandable why it wasn’t stumbled upon sooner.

… come the 1950s or so, understanding how the body absorbs water led to Oral Rehydration Solution, dropping mortality from ~30% to ~2%.

It can be made with fruit juice, water, and salt. And no additional tools or advanced preparation or specialist administration needed. It’s mixed, and the patient just drinks it - oral rehydration.

Theory isn’t always flashy, but it is often stunning in its successes.

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Clay tiles, overwhelmingly. Most stone isn’t worth the effort to make into roof tiles; between the weight, expense, and the high rate of replacement (and preference for easy uniformity) needed in roof tiles, only slate is really consistently used for roofing. Other stone, like marble, was occasionally used as a ‘prestige’ project, but clay tiles can be easily and consistently precisely shaped and fitted, allowing for practical concerns like weight distribution and water runoff to be addressed, so it’s generally just not worth it. And marble doesn’t look all that much better in tile form, tbqh.

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OP

Well, I’m too weak and sick to try to zoom in with my traditional power-glove diplomacy, so what do you figure you’ll do then, mate?

As I said in the post.

I’m leaving. I’m out. This is it for me.

I just don’t have the energy to undertake another instance migration with all my comms.

I’ll go back to doomscrolling Tumblr and playing more games, I suppose.

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(altho that’s still a lot voting, mate!!)

Sure, but it’s maybe two hours of browsing. I don’t browse for two hours every day, but when I do, I would like to not be frustrated by the experience.

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Not a ‘fraud’, in any way. Just a bad decision, and possibly poorly thought out in addition.

I know nothing about the technical side, though the fact that Rimu pivoted to a different explanation when pressed has me skeptical. But it very well could be that voting uses up some significant amount of ‘the commons’ in federating votes. I suspect the actual impact is minimal, though, considering that Piefed.social is the only instance that has even broached the issue, so far as I know, in the three years I’ve been on the Fediverse. And, as mentioned before, it’s trivial to ‘get around’, resulting in the same vote-federation burden as large numbers of votes with one account.

The other explanation offered by Rimu, which I regard as much more likely, is Rimu’s claim that it’s in some way unfair for a small number of users to make up such a large proportion of the Fediverse’s activity. I take him at his word on this - I think he genuinely believes that. No fraud involved. Just a view that power users are some form of ‘influencer’ whose activity is undesirable because it ‘sways’ the community towards the opinions of the most active users.

Rimu, I suspect, thinks that cutting down the tall poppies will just create a more even distribution. Instead, I suspect, it will either result in the former distribution proportion reasserting itself, just with a lower cap and a lower average (thus requiring another reduction of the cap, to ensure a small number of users don’t ‘dominate’ the activity - repeat ad infinitum, or until the instance is dead); or the ‘more even’ distribution being significantly lower in general from decreased activity, as the core function of social media - interaction with others - generates more activity from others as a knock-on effect. It’s self-feeding.

Or self-starving, in this case.

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Damn, I certainly can’t imagine voting 240x in a single day. There might remotely be that number of opportunities in my subscribed stream, but that would be like me forming an opinion upon every-goldurn thing that I possibly saw in that day. And beyond, really?

There are 303 comments in this post alone. If I have an opinion on 2/3s of them, I’m almost at the cap.

~300 comment posts are not the norm on the Fediverse, but I see a fair number of ~80 comment posts. If I run across two or three of them, suddenly I would have very few other opportunities to upvote.

Considering, on top of that, I post quite a bit and get a fair number of comments on each (I had ~90 comment replies to my posts on a pretty normal day’s output on HistoryMemes alone), it doesn’t take much browsing to hit 240 votes.

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Huh. Are we really defining “power users” as ones who vote a whole bunch every day? Because I’d never in a million years chance on that angle.

Power users are those who use a system a disproportionately large amount. Rimu explicitly said it was because the distribution of activity between the most active users (ten or so of us, if memory serves) and the majority.

This is not actually unusual in any online community, but it was apparently worth Rimu’s ire, even after being advised against it by several people, including a fellow Fediverse admin.

That’s not quite true as I understand it. No, I do believe the changes directly help with the stated goals of keeping down vote-brigading / botting and such. That’s some important shizzle that needs to happen no matter the implementation.

Rimu explicitly said that he didn’t think that the top ten users who he was targeting were bots or coordinated. Furthermore, as other people have pointed out, it’s trivially easy to set up a bot to circumvent the voting limit. The only people this punishes are people who are actually interested in interacting with the Fediverse on one account - in other words, the people least likely to be bots or bad actors.

For sure I didn’t realise that some here hit their vote limit, but what are the metrics on that?

I don’t know about the metrics, but I noted in my goodbye thread numerous users whose ‘vote quota’ bars were filled up. Most of them weren’t Piefed.social users, so they won’t even be aware that their votes are being rejected by Piefed.social. Their vote is shadow-banned, in a sense.

Is it maybe better for the cap to be lifted in to a sort of zone that meets both requirements?

What ’other requirement’ is there, if the problem was not and has never been botting or bad actors? The only two justifications offered by Rimu have been that it’s a ‘bad use’ of ‘the commons’ for people to vote so much; and that a small number of users should not make up such a large proportion of the Fediverse’s activity.

PJ, is just possible that you keeping up the unholy pace of contributing amazing content here on a daily basis possibly weared on you over time? Personally I know it’s been for me, altho I work in a different format. But three years is a hell of a long time to contribute to a free internet project intended for the public good.

No, not at all. Fact is, I miss it terribly, even only a week out. I miss posting much more than voting and browsing, even. But I’m also not going to be half-in and half-out, generating content but stripped of the ability to interact with the content of others on my own terms - terms that I’ve been interacting on for the past three years, and that has never been a problem - in any instance - until now. “I upvote what I like” is apparently no longer acceptable on Piefed.social, if you’re online ‘too much’.

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reply to: This is meant respectfully, see post body in RoughRomanMemes

Zionism is when you think Israel is a pariah state that should be treated like North Korea, apparently.

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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.

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OP edited

Sending most people I genuinely remember seeing around a DM (slow going, poor morale; saying goodbye is always hard DX), but looks like I can’t send DMs to you. But you’re definitely one of the names I recognized and enjoyed seeing. o7

And anytime I saw you, all I heard in my head was “Maiq knows much!”

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That’s a lot. How it is limiting your activities as you told us earlier ?

I said, multiple times, that I hit the vote quota before it was even announced.

If you stop posting, that’s just the choice you made, that’s not due to the voting quota. You may claim it limit your activity because you disagree with this, but there is only yourself there.

“It only enshittifies one part of your experience! It’s your fault if that makes your overall experience not worth it!”

🙄

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reply to: This is meant respectfully, see post body in RoughRomanMemes

Well, like I said. Not always. Certainly I have no regrets of delivering biting remarks to genuine dipshits and bootlickers.

But I’m also acutely aware that my acidic tone activated on folks who may have been a bit on the stubborn side, but probably did not always deserve that level of response.

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Zionism is when you think Israel is a pariah state that should be treated like North Korea, apparently.

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OP

So I always said you lot were just funny words on a screen to me, but I did tear up a little reading your comments. I guess I’ll miss a number of you. It made me feel better about the time I spent here posting, and worse about leaving.

I wish I had it in me to keep going like the last few times.

Thanks. To all (or, rather, the vast majority) of you. It was because of you that I enjoyed my time on the Fediverse so much.

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Well the vote quota is set above average normal human reaction. How it is not a tool to identify bot ?

240 votes in a day is not above ‘average normal human reaction’.

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