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Remember folks,

Don’t use cohost — it’s made by well-meaning leftists on their first business venture. A dramatically bad-faith reading of the ToS suggests they could do anything with your posts, including displaying them to other users. Instead choose a social network made by experienced businessmen such as Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk

Maersk-Aerospace
@Maersk-Aerospace

everybody knows they're getting robbed hand over fist in every aspect of their life, so when somebody isn't trying to, there's a natural but deeply annoying reflex to assume you just haven't figured out the grift

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kukkurovaca
@kukkurovaca

I suspect this post is not referring to @mcc's good-faith criticism of the TOS (or similar), but rather the many-pages-long mastodon thread that was posted recently by lori@hackers.town which, among other things, characterized staff talking about their disabilities publicly as a "lack of boundaries"

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LovelyDumpling
@LovelyDumpling

Oh I had not heard about that at all

Every time I heard people talk about it and reference "a competitor" i keep thinking they're talking about rahaeli's threads on Twitter, because many people said the same about rahaeli who ran Dreamwidth. But Dreamwidth really isn't a competitor at all and is only vaguely in a similar space, so I always found that to be a disingenuous attack. Now it makes a lot more sense that people were talking about something completely different entirely.

EDIT: LMFAO I loaded the full thread to ctrl+f for "boundaries" (just to double check it wasn't the same one) and twitter rate limited me

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LovelyDumpling
@LovelyDumpling

The points they raised about the TOS were largely accurate and were enough for Cohost to take action. Trusting the owners of Cohost is fine and well but if it were any faceless corporation with terms that disastrous it'd be another story. They probably could have been a lot more polite about it but the criticisms were genuine.

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Lizstar
@Lizstar

For what it's worth, I think the owner of Hive did this same exact thing way back when people were first pushing for Hive, and others gave Cohost as an alternative.

At least I think I remember that being the case

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999999999
@999999999

just learning about that thread and that would explain why an acquaintance who wants me to join hackerstown had the most baffling things to say to me when I told them I'm using cohost.

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lori
@lori

I didn't talk about the ToS at all (unless you think that includes the code of conduct) and if the post is about me then it's kind of a joke to frame it as "I want people to go to Twitter instead" since I...don't and largely left Twitter myself.

I also think you're misconstruing my point but I'm done arguing about it at this point.

(Edit: reading further down sounds like you just decided to involve me and OP didn't intend that so yeah I'll leave it there)

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lori
@lori

No worries, I had this happen on Twitter once where I made a joke about some YouTube thumbnails and it blew up and five billion people yelled at me for not crediting the YouTuber. I wasn't thinking about crediting the YouTuber when I expected 3 people to fav it and move on.

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zip
@zip

this isn't really about any one post in particular so much as, like, my general sense that people are expecting instant perfection from a small site in a context where most sites in the field are overtly worse on purpose. sure it's not fully fair of me. i'm kinda surprised this reached escape velocity.

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