What the actual fuck?
Like I know I haven't been posting here a lot but...why? Aside from people not adopting it for whatever reason, why?
Like, this was nearly perfect. After Tumblr all but imploded, and every other site having character limits, I waited for god knows how long for a site where I could post longer form thoughts, without worrying about algorithms and shit, without worrying about whether people would namesearch and start a flamewar over it or accidentally make it viral and be swarmed by thousands of people wanting to start a flamewar. Cohost seemed to have almost all that I was looking for, not only a solid replacement for Tumblr but also Livejournal, very good tagging, no algorithms, just a chill place where I can control what I put in my feed and what I see, and I can post stuff without worrying about unneeded virality or antagonism
Apparently the framework of the internet is so cooked that the vast majority of people think differently, they don't want what I want in a site, there must be something wrong with me, for the near perfect representation of what I want in a site to not be financially feasible or viable and I ask, why?
Where can I go now to get a close approximation of what I wanted, especially in a longform? I have Twitter and BlueSky and Mastodon but these have character limits, I have to thread longform posts, Tumblr is a nearly-dead joke, LJ is exponentially more of a long nearly-dead joke. If there is nothing, can someone make a site similar to it? If not, why not?