SludgerSlipfwysh

mammal-mollusk sowslug

  • shi/hir, it/its, they/them

Shape-shifty mutant chimera hermaphrodite. Problematic garden pest. American badger kinnie. That rotten tranny faggot cockroach queer.

I'm pro-kink and don't take kindly to kink-shaming or antis. If you can't get along with paraphilic people you might just be a bigot. Cohost was not pro-kink, and that's bad.

You can message me on Telegram @ Sludger_Slipfwysh



I don't feel it's especially productive -for me at least- to mourn a web space that isn't necessarily gone yet, but I really was rooting for the site before that anti-kink policy update. My period of mourning has been past for half a year now and I don't know how to feel.

When Monsterpit blew up suddenly into a cloud of smoke (a while back now) and I lost basically my only public net space outside of a periodic visit to Twitter, it was really hard to be confined to just chatrooms. People like me need some place to be hosted, preach from, be seen, but it's becoming clear it needs to be from an open source project with a shared stake and resources. The Achilles' heel of Cohost may be ASSC's staunch refusal to accept (non-financial) community support, which may completely dismantle the community they're trying to serve. Refusing work where it can be offered in a net space for the principal of the matter is basically magical thinking when the stakes are Site or No Site. The idea that a fiscally independent site or software is not to be held aloft by its community is frankly unprecedented and a lofty goal at best.

I do not think this is the only thing that needs to be changed, and I am thinking we are maybe past the point were such things can be implemented, but if Cohost can make it through this, it is certainly something to be considered.


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