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Bruno Dias

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"mr storylets"

writer (derogatory). lead designer on Fallen London.

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the recent discourse that is, as far as I can tell, about cohost and tumblr having different cultures and vibes is interesting to me, a person of a certain age. I've thought many times that what cohost reminds me of, more than anything, is tumblr circa 2009-2010 -- at least the part of it where a substantial chunk of the userbase was people one to three degrees of separation away from david karp, and a substantial chunk of the discourse there was really just oblique public-facing dispatches from the new york media/gawker/(SORRY LOL) young manhattanite extended universe and its associated backchannels. or like the part of twitter composed primarily of something awful goons who went back 10+ years.

this isn't a value judgment either way, it's just a thought I've had many times

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A thing that's kinda wild to me is tumblr users complaining that Cohost has no DMs... when Tumblr didn't have DMs until 2015. Tumblr's whole golden age of posting happened in a DM-less universe.

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At Glitch, Anil Dash was (is?) the CEO and I observed his Live journal/New York/early web social circles and felt like I was watching some group interact publicly with decades of context that was invisible to me. I wonder if that's the same group as you're referring to?

I feel like there's some recognizable facets in stuff that gets published nowadays that's ultimately rooted in that group. Like Silicon Valley startup culture derided traditional media and this group kinda defined itself as being more legit because of their connections to traditional media, and as a result they write a lot of think pieces on the flaws of tech bro culture that are less directly criticisng things like capitalism and more pointing out "Unlike them, I've been trying to build thoughtful businesses on the web all along".

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I don't think it was until I moved out to the Bay Area that I realized just how much of a cultural bubble you can live in if you're adjacent to coastal tech or media or especially tech media. It's like its own little fiefdom (which for certain tech people may have been the goal?).

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