“Sometimes there’s a man… I won’t say a “hero,” because what’s a hero? But sometimes there’s a man who… well, he’s the man for his time and place!” – Sam Elliot (the Stranger) from the glorious The Big Lebowski

You know that classic quote about standing on the shoulders of giants (and pioneers)? Honestly, in so many ways, that’s how I truly feel about the good ol’ Fediverse.

So, to sum up-- who are YOUR heroes here, and what does keep you hanging on here, baby…?

EDIT: For people wondering about what kinds of ‘bumps & difficulties’ I’ve personally experienced, here’s a tiny sampler:

https://piefed.social/post/1431056#comment_8685458

    • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      There’ve been any number of issues and annoying problems going back to my original instance, Lemm.ee, over 2yrs ago. Latest ones are my host losing useful functionality for roughly half the day, both today and on FRI. There’s also chronic interconnection issues between instances across the FV. For example, last time I checked, the top four FV software bases still don’t connect to the Lemmy / PieFed / etc side of things. Mastodon is just beginning to rudimentarily connect to PF, but IIRC Lemmy still doesn’t.

      Have you really never experienced or read about problems such as these…? oO

      • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
        11·
        5 months ago

        I guess I just care a lot less about federation between totally different kinds of social media than you do. Mastodon/Twitter style narcissism is something I’m fine not being exposed to. I also consider PieFed to be a completely failed dead-in-the-water project because requiring users to write an essay and beg for an account has got to be the absolute stupidest possible way to grow a non-established social network.

        As far as federation delays, yes I do hear about them but as an end user, I just never felt any impact. I haven’t had any issues with conversations being interrupted or anything like that. Or if they were, perhaps I just assumed that the person I was talking to stepped away for a while because they had something more important to do than argue with strangers on the internet haha.

        • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialOPEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          I guess I just care a lot less about federation between totally different kinds of social media than you do.

          Nah, mate, on the contrary-- I was talking about highly-similar cases.

          In any case, have fun! :D