Not cohost, cohost is still cool! But Twitter, Reddit, Bluesky, Discord, all are making really fucking terrible and user-hostile decisions!!!
the era of free money is over, and all of them are panicking. they see their advertisers, data brokers, and investors as their customers, and forget that their platforms only exist and remain solvent at the whims of their users. They tailor things around the ways to make money, not realizing that advertising etc only works if people are there to lure people to the adverts.
it's a labor issue, but not as we generally think of it. but the production only happens with the users' labor.
