tbh I find "Cohost doesn't have numbers so it doesn't skinner box you" less relevant over time than "Cohost has no incentive to prioritize Engagement over actual enjoyment, so it skinner boxes you for art and effortposts rather than for bait and drama"
standardized extruded reward pellets are good! we all need standardized extruded reward pellets! what matters is the conditions under which they are dispensed
okay tbf Tumblr (at least when I was there) didn't actually mechanically drive drama that much harder than Cohost does, like I absolutely had the option to not re-re-re-re-re-blog the 194th edition of "is it a consent violation to draw porn of live action characters because you're using the actors' real appearances" but you see, the thing Cohost really did right here was, they got me when I was ten years older
