He was an incredibly prolific poster. Unfortunately I found him to be rather abrasive, I don't recall any particular interaction but I do get an "oh yeah, that guy. Glad he's not been around much lately" sense when I see that name.

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Windex007 14 points an hour ago

I'm glad they were around because they were singlehandedly posting an obscene amount which really helped lemmy not feel like a ghost town back then.

But, they clearly had mental health issues. No healthy person would post whatever he was doing... probably 1000 posts a day (did the math: 100 posts avg per day. One post every 14 minutes for 2 years straight). Considering HOW unwell they were, they were relatively good natured. But you could see thier worldview was rooted in pretty serious personal issues.

They were tedious, and frustrating, condescending, and a know it all. Absolutely couldn't admit they were wrong... not even admit that weren't perfectly right. But... they weren't ok.

I was glad when they disappeared, but mostly because I was really hoping they had been intervention-d by loved ones. To go cold turkey one day must have been BRUTAL for them.

All in all I think he was the right person at the right time. Thier faults actually DROVE engagement, which was important for a blossoming platform. I don't think anything they said or did was out of malice.

A complicated person. I really hope they're doing better.

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USSEthernet 8 points 4 hours ago

Anyone ever figure out what happened to them?

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Zedstrian 12 points 4 hours ago

They're not active here, but they're still active on Bluesky.

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fleem 10 points 3 hours ago

oh. well that's good to know then!

glad i don't have to feel a weird pang of "uh oh wha happen"

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OpenStars 5 points 2 hours ago

I'm glad he's okay!

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taiyang 1 point 14 minutes ago

I'm glad they're doing ok. I actually didn't mind their drama at all, they just had a bad string of things going on in their life. I recall them moving to Europe (or saying they were) at some point and then gone.

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StarvingMartist 5 points an hour ago

There's no way it's been two years

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PP_BOY_ 4 points 4 hours ago

I can't even remember why I disliked this person but I did

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Texas_Hangover 7 points 3 hours ago

Dude was a schizo drama whore lol. It never ended, until it mericully did.

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tacosanonymous 4 points 2 hours ago

Dafuq is “mericully?”

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NOT_RICK 4 points 2 hours ago

Think they meant mercifully

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luthis 3 points 2 hours ago

Mercifully + miraculously

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Texas_Hangover 2 points 2 hours ago

Drunk ass version of mercifully 🤣

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TrickDacy 2 points 2 hours ago

Mercurially

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PriorityMotif 1 point 2 hours ago

iirc they posted one of the few posts I've had to remove from !dull_mens_club@lemmy.world nothing serious, it just wasn't really appropriate for the com.

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Aussiemandeus 1 point an hour ago

Man i don't know what it was but we never have anything exciting enough to need to be removed

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Zen_Shinobi 4 points 3 hours ago

Who now? 😅

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TheMinions 9 points 3 hours ago

Basically a serial shitposter for a few years. Came over during/before the whole Reddit API migration.

I also remember a lot of left leaning (duh) political memes and a fair amount of posts about how doctors couldn’t figure out his ability to swallow food or some such.

Because of that, FlyingSquid was unemployed and posted in a lot of communities daily and would comment frequently as well.

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Drusas 5 points 2 hours ago

He didn't just shitpost.

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deacon 2 points an hour ago

I really thought I recognized all of the big posters around here but I don’t recall this guy at all.

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