Eh, they are annoying and powertripping. Glad to see they aren't shitting all over the place anymore.
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That’s a good point I used to see him all the time and chatted with him some.
Last I spoke, in public comments in here, he had completed his move to the UK (where I live too) so perhaps he’s just been busy with all the changes.
Edit: Good on you for asking.
Probably took a "news break"
I know FlyingSquid from another community, and sent them a private message just a few days ago saying hello. (I didn't know they had been missing at the time.) FS is awesome, and I really hope they're okay.
He is power tripping mod, blocked me because he disagreed with me. Had to get another mod to address it.
Well, I’d you truly do know them - let them know it was noticed and some of us do hope they are ok. A break or a full breakup is totally justified. I just don’t want to see people hurt or hurting.
My interactions with him weren't awesome but he has his heart in the right place and that's all that matters to me.
Forget squid, what happened to MargotRobbie?
Do you mean academy award nominated actress MargotRobbie?
She’s busy filming.
Serious answer: account probably got stale or tired of the joke?
They probably burned out to they stopped paying them.
And there is our resident conspiracy theorist
Ah yes, the elusive they.
I will absolutely not share specifics of this since it would be doxxing him, but I found one of his other social media accounts and it had a post from a week ago that seemed ordinary enough. Whatever got him to stop posting here, it wasn't something so drastic as to prevent him from engaging with his interests
(Also Squid, if you see this, I am happy to explain how I found you over DMs if it concerns you)
Thanks for giving an update, I was really concerned
Same here ... but still a bit concerned
Hey @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world, maybe you will want to reach out if you see this post. (Many here are a bit worried)
Take care 😌
I’m glad he’s off if that’s truly him then. Some of the other posts here were worrying. Best of luck to him and his family.
Glad to hear that he's apparently doing okay.
But I must say, I think it's probably for the best that he dialed down his Fediverse engagement. Both for his own sake (nobody should spend that much time on social media) and for the Fediverse as a whole - he seemed to be everywhere that I went and it made the place feel small and monocultural.
I've always liked the way on Reddit I barely ever recognized anyone's name. I prefer engaging with the conversation, not with the people.
Being real, part of what's been great about lemmy is connection with people, instead of empty bullshit jokes and snark and the usual smugness that comes from not knowing the people.
There's a been dozens of times I've seen people here see someone acting unusual, and reaching out to see what's going on, offering sympathy and ending with mutual respect instead of slap fights.
Fuck the way reddit worked. It didn't work, but everyone thought it was the only way to have threaded forums, that you had to accept everyone being anonymous dicks as the price of discourse and content.
But it isn't, it really isn't the only way. And lemmy, for all its faults, still has that sense of actual community where you can go to a new C/ and run across lemmy friends. Some of them may even turn into friends in other ways.
The old squid was indeed everywhere, and he made plenty of mistakes along the way, but damned if he didn't do his part to make lemmy feel like a place for people first, even when the way he went about that was one of his mistakes.
I don't want to float through the kind of cesspits reddit could have, feeding back into toxicity via anonymity and disconnection.
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I really like just occasionally recognizing someone. Also, user labels are awesome. I write about funny jokes and mad nuts in those.
I just tag all the other sheep. It's important.
🐑🐑🤝
I have one for the person who taught me how to use tags and someone who is "literally jarvas" but I forgot why lol
It's really sweet seeing someone who you've had a positive experience with before:)
That's good to hear
I saw recently (within the last three weeks or so) that they were blocked from posting on the World News or News communities in their mod log. Can't remember which now because an entire decade has happened between now and then.
Hope they are OK.
Nicole got 'em.
Nicole? Or the Buttplug Man?
Nicole. She keeps spamming peoples inboxes with the following:
Hi, I’m Nicole! But you can call me the Fediverse Chick :D
I’m a proud Polish girl from Toronto (29 y/o)
I’m currently taking the pre-health sciences program at George Brown College hoping to get into the medical field someday!
My dad just lost his job and I have no money for tuition next semester. Please help me raise money so I can keep going to school! Donate anything you can to these bitcoin and litecoin addresses <3
BTC: bc1q3qkfrdrgvj53aam8vm8l9q6ecqrdpysx2fwtr4
LTC: ltc1q38vgtp8v8gr0fftv7kad2syxqfykfeh8sljjf5
Thank you very much!
You can add me on Friendica: https://friendica.namestaci.cz/profile/fediversechick/profile
Join my discord here: https://discord.gg/RvMBVnf8
Join me on matrix here: https://matrix.to/#/#nicoles_place:matrix.org
Oh, I'm referring to a claim that someone saw a reflection of a middle-aged man in a buttplug that was is a nicole photo (before it being deleted). I've not seen the image myself so, don't know if it is a substantiated claim.
She gets everyone in the end.
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Last I saw, he moved back to the UK and was struggling to find a job. The sudden, unexpected lack of communication is certainly concerning.
I really do hope we hear from him. I find it nice that he has communicated with so many of us in this thread and I hope he learns that people are a little concerned.
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