I'm gonna get right to the point: I'm burnt out, and I kind of hate this place. I started it not because I kept getting banned from elsewhere but because I wanted to do something better Well, two years in, and I cannot say this place is any better, just differently bad. Too many people here seem to think that because it's not "corpo social media" that anything goes, and boy do some people really run with that.

The average Lemming has the nuance of a wrecking ball and the maturity of a junior high edge lord, and trying to keep the peace here has been beyond what I want to deal with.

I need help.

This instance has a mission, and I am no longer able to deal with the volume of toxic shitheads who do nothing but call for violence, take people out of context and jump to insane conclusions, and just act like fucking petulant children. Seriously, the demographic here is fucking disgusting and needs to grow the hell up.

So this is it: Either someone else steps up and helps to keep this place sane, or I'm shutting it down. Clock is ticking.

I'm gonna get right to the point: I'm burnt out, and I kind of hate this place. I started it not because I kept getting banned from elsewhere but because I wanted to do something better Well, two years in, and I cannot say this place is any better, just differently bad. Too many people here seem to think that because it's not "corpo social media" that anything goes, and boy do some people really run with that.

The average Lemming has the nuance of a wrecking ball and the maturity of a junior high edge lord, and trying to keep the peace here has been beyond what I want to deal with.

I need help.

This instance has a mission, and I am no longer able to deal with the volume of toxic shitheads who do nothing but call for violence, take people out of context and jump to insane conclusions, and just act like fucking petulant children. Seriously, the demographic here is fucking disgusting and needs to grow the hell up.

So this is it: Either someone else steps up and helps to keep this place sane, or I'm shutting it down. Clock is ticking.

I'll miss dubvee, to be sure. Mostly I'll miss you PTZ. You have been a voice of reason and sanity in this crazy federated space. It's special when you can find someone who is reasonable, capable, level headed, and passionate - it's rare. I really do appreciate the amazing work you have done for your communities, and the platform - perhaps the appreciation was too silent. I've admired the way you ran dubvee, the automod efforts, it was really nice to see such positive efforts and attitude.

I know you will continue to do good things, and I hope you find satisfaction and joy in them. I'm happier knowing your in the world.

Thanks. And same to a fellow "sane voice in an ocean of madness". I think my instance was getting hugged to death last night, so things got slow and I just stopped responding until this morning.

I thought I could just defed and mass ban my way to a non-toxic low-toxicity instance, but between the .ee shutdown/exodus and other instances spinning up parallel Piefed instances around the same time, so many of the banned accounts came back with brand new alts.

Imagine spending 2 years tediously cleaning up a field of broken glass, finally thinking you've gotten the worst of it, and then someone comes along and dumps the trash can over and you have to start all over again.