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I'm so happy this place exists. All the reasons you stated are why we need places like Cohost.
Very well put. I agree wholeheartedly. I know a lot of people had problems with twitter long before Musk took over, but due, I guess, to my highly curated following list, I never experienced anything negative on twit until it went under Musk's ownership... and so it felt like when the ship started to sink I was losing the place where I had met all of my online friends and had really important and fun conversations with people and began to share myself more openly and make a lot of self discoveries. A place that had been nothing but great and life changing to me. So it just all seemed bad... but the silver lining has been Cohost. This site, to me, is everything that I loved about my little cordoned off, highly private space on twitter, except it's made by people who GIVE A DAMN. And if I weren't perpetually broke, this would be the first place I would be sending cash to. Because I desperately want this place to succeed. I want all of my friends to come here and hang out and not experience the shittyness and the fascists and the predatory advertising/data selling that other social media sites have. I haven't been able to convince many because bluesky seems like the place where there's a bigger community. But I'm gonna keep making my argument that it's not a BETTER community. Because on here I haven't HAD to keep my little space all cordoned off. I've been searching around and commenting on random peoples posts, just being friendly and sharing ideas and not fearing that anyone would react like a troll or a dipshit. This place is amazing and we need to give the FOUR people responsible for it all of the time and space they need to make Cohost successful... because if it sticks around it has the very real chance of becoming a beacon of light in an ever darkening digital space. And I don't think it's hyperbolic to say that this world really NEEDS that. ✌️
Thank you for this post. As someone with very little understanding of how a website is run, this puts a lot of things into a new light for me.
yeah it's like something that became abundantly clear to me the first time i tried doing a long term comic; you start to really understand why most people fail to update webcomics; it's because unless you get the support you need long term projects like this just don't last. long term projects are hard, expensive and fucking draining.
and it only gets harder, more expensive, and even more fucking draining when you're a small team.
ngl I've never understood why, "sell my data" wasn't an opt-in feature that you could just,, choose not to do, or, do it, and help fund sites.
fuck knows I'd do it here. same with ads. I understand them not wanting that stuff at all, but i'd absolutely go for it if it was optional, simply cuz... I like this place.
Cohost Plus is nice, too, once im... not earth shatteringly poor.
the answer is that nobody wants to do it. the moment apple added a “do not track me” feature, it literally tanked facebook’s revenue by a fair bit because so many people turned it on. you gotta trick people into selling their data because most people don’t want their data sold
well I get that, but that's more because, that's what you got to do if you're a low trust group.
If your respectability and trustability is already tanked, of course people won't agree to help keep the lights on with possibly intrusive measures.
if i was gonna trust my data with any group, it'd be ASSC specifically because they aren't selling it. i don't want them to sell my data because i value my privacy, and i don't want to give advertisers even more leverage than they already have on me when they advertise dog collars to me tbh fr smh
nevermind the fact that you never get to know who is buying your data, a "low trust group" is anyone willing to sell it in the first place.
Yepp I def agree, how long things actually take to implement is always underestimated and often under appreciated. I rarely work with Frontend but sure need help from magical people to make it work.
As a new user to cohost i find these posts super helpful & informative! Thank you for your insight ✨
Does anybody remember back when Twitter was new? I sure do. Dark mode didn't exist in any website.
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