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I genuinely don't know what to make of Cohost any more as it enters its palliative care era. even the usual ride or die eggbug sardaukar on here haven't done their usual round of browbeating the haters or clapping for Tinkerbell. there's no positive spin on either the financial update or the farcical way it was shared with us.

I look in my list of liked posts. I see a lot of artwork that I enjoy, and some actual thoughtful and useful tips on how to do stuff with a media server. I would not have found Victoria Scott's "We Deserve This" look book without Cohost.

These posts will vanish if Cohost cannot somehow secure another round of funding in a couple months. I cannot imagine how rational people would continue to drop money on the site on its current path but rich people make foolish money decisions all the time. I'm sure paying for this site is a rounding error for some Silicon Valley backer who got rich from a liquidity event.

But the staff are not being serious with other people's money, and they're not being serious with the people who joined here hoping to find a new home or a way to make money selling their creative work. Until March, I was a subscriber. I believed in the vision. I don't any more.

This coincides with a lot of other microblogging services turning into absolute dogshit. Bluesky is a transphobic mess. I see a lot of folks grudgingly slink back to Twitter, because as god awful as it has become, at least you can still find commission work there. Discord is, well. My experience with Discord is skimming Patreon servers for people I like, and lingering on a few private servers with long time friends.

I don't like the internet very much any more. Or at least, I don't like microblogging sites. I keep threatening to go back to forums posting and maybe this is the year for it.


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