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   piefedadmin (piefedadmin@join.piefed.social)'s status on Friday, 15-May-2026 06:53:53 JST piefedadmin
   What worked at 100 users broke at 5,000

   Recent events have made me realise something.

   In the early days, when PieFed was tiny (it’s still tiny I guess) me being really engaged with the community was a huge strength. I knew immediately what was going on and could release a fix/change really fast and people loved that. In contrast it made the other projects and their devs seem slow and distant.

   It worked great. For quite a while.

   But now PieFed has thousands of users and there are haters and there are bugs and there are feature requests, etc etc and now what used to be a strength has become a danger and a weakness. Me jumping onto every issue and responding every time someone @ rimu’s me drags me into stuff, destroys my focus and leaves me on the verge of burnout. If people can troll me into behaving erratically (they can!) then it stalls my work and when I behave badly it makes the whole project look bad.

   Now I understand why larger projects’ devs keep some distance. It’s the only way to keep working while the storm rages outside.

   It looks like I’m going to have to put in some insulating layers between me and the wider fediverse. Defined communication channels for feature requests, places to report bugs, delegate to others some/more of the community management, put together a FAQ and more docs, and so on.

   There will have to be some debates, issues and conspiracy theories that are left alone and not debunked by me personally. Internet chatter is just not something I can be putting as much time into as I used to. Realistically that point was passed months ago but I lacked the experience needed to spot it at the time.

   Although unpleasant for me personally this growth is a good problem for PieFed to have. It just means my focus and strategy needs to change, to protect my attention & energy and serve the community as well as I can over the long term.

   #fediverse #FOSS #piefed
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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 05-Feb-2026 07:49:17 JST Paul Cantrell

   in reply to

   @miss_rodent There was one huge ramp-up in early Dec, and another in early Jan. We could •feel• both. Those first days of Dec were wild too.

   I don’t remember which jump was larger in numbers, but I do remember that the Jan one felt newly unhinged and violent. It’s like…in Dec they were lawless thugs, yes, but in Jan it felt like they’d started doing meth or something.

   In Dec, I felt like they were going to kill someone with their •driving•: left turn on red on a 4-lane highway, highway speeds on residential streets, that kind of thing. But by the time they shot Renee Good, I was not surprised they’d straight-up shot someone.

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   Mike Lawton (mlawton@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jun-2025 20:52:15 JST Mike Lawton

   A neighbor invites me out for drinks once a month. Two hours, two beers. Every time. It’s VERY rigid.

   Nonetheless, the conversation flows. Despite some differences, I think maybe we are friends. Or developing as friends… in that stilted way that adult men do.

   As I’m getting out of the car, he says “see you next month” and I now feel like a networked commodity, primed for whenever he might need me for something.

   In my head, I hear myself think, “just leave the money on the nightstand…” ☹️

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   Terry Hendrix II 🏹 (thendrix@social.hendrixgames.com)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 16:52:15 JST Terry Hendrix II 🏹

   Fucking A, man. Game over. Most of the combat troops are guardsmen. If they finally do it then it would be something.

   In the latest indication that rank-and-file Republicans are ready to move on from an era of senseless and unconstitutional militarism, a whopping 84% of Texas GOP voters on Tuesday backed a resolution demanding that the Lone Star State reject any deployment of National Guard troops to a combat zone without a congressional declaration of war.

   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/texas-gop-voters-demand-end-unconstitutional-national-guard-deployments

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   NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Aug-2023 18:26:41 JST NEETzsche

   in reply to

   What is the point of hiding the day of revelation from Christ himself?

   Good question. Maybe if I knew all of the mysteries I could tell you. I suppose I’ll keep reading and get back to you on that if I find something.

   In the meantime, I’ve gotten you to backpedal from truths are never spoken in private, to truths are spoken in private, but it doesn’t matter. I’d say that’s a pretty big W for me. Maybe you should show a little respeck, bucko. :anintellectual:

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   Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 20:23:10 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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   @Algot

   The universe is telling me something.

   In French.