Gwen

Dumbass in a dumb land

  • She/Her

I was born in the late Holocene and I've seen some shit



listen, i talk a lot of shit about cohost and most of my problems are intrinsic to the philosophy of the site's design and to the tediousness of the most fervent supporters in its userbase. but i genuinely am rooting for this site, even if i fundamentally am at odds with its owners about how and when they decide to paternalistically decide what is and is not good for the userbase and what features are 'healthy' for the userbase and which ones are not.


ultimately i am a person who believes in strong hands-on moderation and curation and do not actually believe in most ideologies that place belief in good-faith self-organizing and i believe so much of cohost is built around that as a hopeful mantra more than anything else, while still making deeply paternalistic decisions like 'private metrics aren't usually good, almost nobody needs them' or 'publicly viewable metrics are universally bad', which i'm not sure i believe even a little bit, among a variety of other decisions. I understand cohost's goals but i do not usually agree with its choices. also I find the constant fucking bitching about people who chose to remain on twitter or move to bluesky instead of picking cohost, a site that does not actively meet their needs, deeply fucking annoying and pathetic.

So while i am rooting for the site in the long run, because i also am sick of the corporate internet and enshittification, seeing bigtime cohost supporters getting hoisted by their own petards for a few of these issues coalescing into a ballooning culture problem on the site is extremely funny to me.


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