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lexyeevee
@lexyeevee

this was a website where i stopped tagging my posts at all because it seemed to attract dozens of angry strangers. people still lament the lack of discoverability though

this was a website where i unbookmarked my own project tags, because people used them as a harassment vector, and then there was no reason to really check my bookmark feed any more

this was a website where someone still has a pinned subchost about how i don't have the right to be comfortable, where the subtext is that someone else has the right to be comfortable

this was a website where i watched a popular poster publicly bitch about a bad and clueless commenter and practically pursue them in a series of escalating and increasingly unnerving posts despite no further comments, until that commenter disappeared from the website entirely. zero other people seemed to have a problem with any of this. also it happened twice. and then there was the suicide baiter

this was a website where i was called a blue-no-matter-who liberal etc in a whole series of screenshot dunks because i said hamas causing mass death is bad, and also got a disappointed talking-to because i said israel causing mass death is bad

this was a website where one person being furiously angry over the lack of a color scheme could ruin the vibes for weeks. i guess it worked though

this was a website that shrank and shrank over time. this was a website where i went weeks or months without posting because the little voice in my head that annotates idle thoughts with "oh that would be fun to post about" just went quiet and i never knew how to get it back. (it's already returned for bluesky.) this was a website that was much nicer to read than twitter, but somehow orders of magnitude more stifling to post to than twitter

this was a website that made me wonder if it's even possible for me to get along with people, in general, at all

this was a website


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I've always appreciated your posts and vibes and the few times we've interacted. Sorry people are such jerks, it is truly a blessing and a curse to be perceived

I always enjoyed reading your posts.

Cohost's definitely been my favourite "one of these", but I was never on the receiving end of any of this nonsense thankfully, and was able to live in my own bubble mostly.

Straying into the forbidden zones though was (and is) extremely risky though. So much completely earnest and self-righteous nonsense from people who are completely convinced that they are doing a good thing by starting deranged culture wars over dark-mode, folk-etymologies of the word "cretin", or the fact staff were paid actual salaries.

There's at least one name I keep seeing, and I have not entirely worked out if the same mob think this individual is the cause or victim of all of cohost's worst problems.

I note these people never include the "Staff Burnout" part of the shutdown in their very rigorous post-mortems.

lots of stuff happens in the background it seems
still i found it great having you on my feed, your posting has been i just guess nothing but great, funny and css crimes
i just remember randomly finding your cohost and decided to follow(as far as my memory can get behind)
best thing ever done
you are a individual that seemed extremely nice to me
people are bad and they feel entitled to be bad by haunting you or your past, even if you change they don't like to change and stay the same
people are jerk
they will always stay as a jerk as long as you stay being an awesome person

stay awesome, be awesome
stay yourself, be yourself

I still think about the person who chided you for making up a kind of person to be angry at, in a comment section full of people complaining about running into that kind of person before

The piracy post seemed like a horrible time all 'round and I hate that it turned out that way, inexplicably. Like it's one thing for internet people to misinterpret a post, it's another for so many en-mass to do it.

I somehow missed so much drama that was going on in the background, I only ever saw vagueposts about it. The most I explicitly saw was about how Cohost was too White or something.

Sucks that you keep running into this conflict with other rando people. :<