I’ve deleted all the communities on PieFed.social where I was the sole moderator.

[atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org]

I’ve deleted all the communities on piefed.social where I was the sole moderator. The reason is simple: building on a server where I don’t have final control carries risk, and I don’t want to keep investing in spaces that could be removed from me at any moment.

The one exception is !movies@piefed.social, which has co-moderators. That community will stay, though I won’t be contributing new content there going forward.

This wasn’t a rash decision. I thought it through carefully, and it comes down to making sure the work I put in remains under my own control. All of it was cross-posted from atomicpoet.org to begin with—it’s all still here.

Thanks to everyone who’s followed my posts across different corners of the Fediverse. If you’ve been reading my stuff on PieFed, nothing’s really gone—it’s all still here.

[Kichae]

This is the direction I’ve been moving, and my cotributions to this space are microscopic compared to yours. There’s just too much energy tied up in other peoples spaces, the product of which can blink out of existence without any warning or recourse. Too much focus has been put on building spaces that look and feel like mega-social sites. Falling into those tropes prevents us from focusing on creating something new and uniquely ours.

You have the tools to house your own communities. If you have the energy to do it, it’s best to build them on a foundation you can trust.

[db0@hachyderm.io]

@atomicpoet Does this mean you're effectively quitting the threadiverse? or just not going to contribute to existing comms?

[atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org]

@db0 I’m not quitting. When I come back, it will be in a scenario where I own every aspect of my communities, not just the mod level but the admin level too. It’s important that I be able to defederate if need be—so that if a certain server proves toxic, I can be act fast.

Also, I will define the culture of that server as well as what those communities look like because, frankly, that’s what ownership means.

Now the question is: which software to use. I have several choices.

But I will re-visit that after other projects get off the ground.