despite all its venture capital and famous people on the board and tech hype, cohost got things like "private accounts" way earlier into its existence than bluesky has so far
i can't help but think that site was designed by people who have no purpose for a private account
part of bluesky's whole Thing is "this is a public social media and everything you do is public, as decided down to the vaguely-decentralized systems and APIs behind it. don't expect any privacy"
in contrast to the "Numbers Don't Exist, and people are only reachable by their friends through their friends" thing that cohost (and "old internet", "we should have our own seperate sites and link to eachother" sorta thing) have going on, it's like you have to explore out to find anything & you never really know where you are in comparison to other people
which you could probably write a whole bunch about on its own, i don't think that's intrinsically a good or bad thing for everyone
(though "you can snoop on anyone you like and they'll have no idea" kind of is)
