I used to see him all over the place and now nothing. I checked his post history and it’s been 24 days since he last posted anything.
I don’t know the guy or have any personal stake, but seeing someone everywhere just suddenly disappear is odd.
Eh, they are annoying and powertripping. Glad to see they aren’t shitting all over the place anymore.
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.
My interactions with him weren’t awesome but he has his heart in the right place and that’s all that matters to me.
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.
They probably burned out to they stopped paying them.
And there is our resident conspiracy theorist
Ah yes, the elusive they.
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?
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.
USAID lost its funding
Holy based comment
Dang hope hes ok
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)
That’s good to hear
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 ill off 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.
I really like just occasionally recognizing someone. Also, user labels are awesome. I write about funny jokes and mad nuts in those.
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:)
I just tag all the other sheep. It’s important.
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.
Well, that’s fine if you prefer it that way. I prefer relative anonymity and subject-focused discussion myself. It’s a preference, not an objective “I’m right and you’re wrong” sort of thing.
Word. No right or wrong :)
Just don’t know that you’ll find lemmy in general that subject focused. There’s some communities that stay pretty tight, but it tends more towards mini chats rather than more structured comment chains.
I like that aspect of lemmy as well. I quite commonly see familiar names.
he flew away
Ya dingus
For your health
He became British
Truly a fate worse than death.
Nicole got 'em.
Nicole? Or the Buttplug Man?
Nicole. She keeps spamming peoples inboxes with the following:
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I’m a proud Polish girl from Toronto (29 y/o)
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She gets everyone in the end.
Oof.
Yep, they’re a goner.
Rip the homey.
There was a point a few weeks back where he said he was going to kill himself because he was feeling upset about his future in the UK for some reason and some other user had agreed to like, watch him do it, but then that person backed out. He was acting really weird, but kept up his commenting rate as normal.
Hopefully he’s just stepped away from this platform like someone said and hasn’t harmed himself.
That is not at all what happened.
I read the comments when they occurred and that’s what Squid communicated. I remember that he said he would do it and that a user had agreed to watch because it was shocking to read and he was very upset. I don’t remember further details, like which user backed out.
This might be completely unrelated to why he’s left, but it occurred. If you have the “real story,” go ahead and correct me.
I do have the real story but it’s not mine to tell, so I won’t relay it here. But yours is not correct. You’re misremembering what happened.
If you can’t tell me what I got wrong (without necessarily giving details) then this conversation is useless.
No it isn’t useless. You are misrepresenting what happened. I am here to make this statement. It is useful in that anyone that might have read what you said will hopefully disregard it as a result
And yet, you can’t articulate what’s wrong with it or why, so is that not a reason for people to completely disregard your assertion, too?
If someone reads what both of us have said, neither of us can provide credible evidence that we are correct. That’s as useless of a conversation as I can imagine.
You’re basically saying “nah, you’re wrong” and people are supposed to buy it based on your word? Again, useless.
I’m saying that you’re wrong in your telling of the story. I’m also saying that what happened should not have been public, but unfortunately was. But just because it was, that doesn’t mean any calling to it, or referencing it isn’t incredibly disrespectful to a person that was in the middle of a crisis.
Their privacy should be taken into consideration regardless of whether or not the event was posted publicly.
The comments were removed. There is no need to fill in blanks to tell a story that doesn’t need to be told.
Wow, fuck that other person. I can’t believe someone could be so heartless as to not only root for someone to kill themselves, but to vocally express a desire to watch it happen.
Jesus! I really hope that didn’t happen or wasn’t a thing. The guy was open about an LGBTQ+ child and I really hope they didn’t/don’t have to endure losing their parent. I have a child as well and I would never want him to deal with losing a parent at a young age. It makes me sad.
It didn’t happen like that. It went down very differently.
I thought at first it was 24 hours and I was like woa man. Sometimes folks have to take a break. But 24 days is long.
Yeah, agreed! Especially from someone that was here like all the time.
