Re: this weirdly long Mastodon thread
Yeah, framing talking about personal challenges as a lack of boundaries is kind of a red flag for me, because it smacks of "professionalism" mores that are fundamentally anti-worker at their base. Some of the complaints seem to fundamentally be about the fact that you can tell the people making the site are people.
A lot of the rest is frustratingly hard to assess because, well, people on both cohost and mastodon are allergic to receipts, basically, and this makes a lot of the discourse hard to follow. One of the things about twitter that I do miss is that people just said shit named names and took screenshots. Sometimes it's necessary to move out of passive aggression into actual aggression in order to clearly communicate what a fundamental dispute is about.
To be honest I kind of wish people would just be more clear about when they just have beef with someone because they dislike them (or because they did something to them or their friend in some other context)