What I'm trying to say is, since Twitter is dying and people seem to be migrating more to Tumblr and Masto than here, it's starting to feel like Cohost will not come on top of the social media succession wars.
But this is still my favorite one, and so I will stay here. This site is safe and uncompromising, and my close friends are here. Despite popularity and all, this may become my true "main".
tldr I wuv eggbug
we had started the closed beta before elon even tendered an offer for twitter; a lot of the things we could do to "win" are things we consider morally unacceptable; and even if another platform wins for now, we think there's a pretty decent chance that their users are going to realize that they left in haste for somewhere that still suffers from the same fundamental problems (save for the one where it got acquired)
our goals are:
a) build a place people like spending time on -- one that feels more social than patreon and easier to make a living off of creative works on than twitter;
b) hopefully have enough revenue that we can afford to pay the bills
one of the things that really stuck out to me as funny in the peri-crisis period where people started talking about Twitter Alternatives is how many people said some variation of "forget about mastodon and cohost, what I want is just twitter again but owned by people who aren't awful"
a) I'm gonna be real with you, if you want twitter again but owned by people who aren't awful, what you want is proooooooooobably mastodon, or maybe like... plurk or something
b) even before elon y'all were calling twitter The Hellsite enough and in a despairing enough tone that I don't believe you actually want that
