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I'm shutting down my instance (dubvee.org) and leaving the platform. Just wanted to pop in one last time and bid farewall to you amazing people. Ten Forward has been the one consistent bright spot in my time here, and I will never forget you all.
If you feel you need to know why, my post/comment history sums it up (or see this post ). I don't like goodbyes or getting all mushy, so in lieu of those, and if you must, I'd prefer shitposts lol.
And since I don't like goodbyes...
Take care, dear. All the best for your future. Live long and prosper.
It was a joy reading your comments and posts, so thank you for that.
For your future endeavours I wish you, that is the person behind your Account, good luck and long life.
Kindness is a neverending struggle. And without the appreciation acknowledging that struggle, it's difficult to keep it going.
So appreciate and be appreciated. Because kindness isn't a right, it's an effort we make for and a gift we give to each other. It's something to be thankful for.
Thank you.
Hate to see you go, but do what you gotta do.
You be careful with those cigarettes, young man:
(I know you said no mushy stuff, but I'm gonna miss you! Take care of yourself, you hear?)
My honest, no-longer-gives-a-fuck-what-people-think, opinion is that instance admins across the board need to take a much, MUCH harder stance against toxic behavior if the Fediverse is to succeed and not collapse into a cesspit singularity. No more slaps on the wrists, temp bans, etc. I'm (all too) aware there's a revolving door of shitheads, but the behavior remains the same and they often get to fly under the radar after putting on a fake mustache and hat and coming back in.
I'm as upset as anyone about the state of the world, but I'm a functional adult capable of expressing myself without every second comment being "guillotines, Luigi, violence, violence , revolution!". I'm on the spectrum, though classified as "high functioning" but I learned a long time ago that neurodivergency is not an excuse for toxic behavior. I mention that only because it's a common excuse that gets thrown around, and i don't buy it for one second.
Seems like your political understanding is too immature to reliably handle criticism in an open forum honestly.
Like, if people joking about Luigi makes you clutch your pearls you are out of touch and it is painfully obvious.
Be specific, what kind of singularity are you afraid of?
Are you sure you aren't in denial about how you are uncomfortable society in general has become more progressive in some ways than you and you feel threatened by what that implies about your heart?
I used to post/comment in politics communities, but I've never been here with a political agenda and tend to block or ban those who are; I just want to stay informed with the facts. There's just too many users, mods, and admins here who give extremism and shitty behavior a pass so long as the behavior is in line with whatever flavor of "leftie" the instance subscribes to.
sigh another "I Quit The Left!" hero blaring the alarm about radical leftists as rightwing governments are throwing citizens into concentration camps...
Quoted from someone else in the thread vehemently agreeing
When I petittion to get Hexbear.net defederated from Discuss.Online, thereby opening up a generic instance that would be open to all incoming people fleeing from Reddit from Huffman's shittiness, I started to have a brief hope. It did not last long, b/c the USA elections happened, and more importantly the trolls seemed to switch their strategy, no longer remaining constrained on the Triad servers and instead appearing everywhere, by which I mean Lemmy.World, lemm.ee, sh.itjust.works, etc. - though importantly not truly and literally "everywhere" e.g. dubvee.org, beehaw.org, and the like. Anyway, before that I would see ~90% of the most batshit insane comments coming from hexbear.net, and then after their removal still ~90% of the most insane ones leftover coming from lemmy.ml, i.e. defederating (even if only by personal blocking since the Lemmy version of an "instance block" is laughably ineffective) really did have a chance of cleaning up >99% of the Threadiverse. But then after the elections they started coming from more normal instances, and I gave up that hope that the tide could ever be turned.
And now I have little hope that the Threadiverse will ever grow - obviously it will "survive", but like as a Linux forum where people circle-jerk about Arch Linux (I love Linux too but... dayum, can't we talk about something else as well as that?) and leftist politics, but nothing else that is worth talking about
Are there toxic lefties and problematic people in leftist circles? Of course! However, y'all sound painfully like you are in denial about how conservative you have become and you are willing to throw away a wonderful new relationship with a community because it dares to challenge where society at large has placed the Overton Window's limits of acceptable political discussion.
