I'm done with posting about the Actual Discourse because it's been plenty long enough but I wanted to say something based on Takes I've seen since this started and before it started, so it's really not about the recent thing.
If there's one sentiment that needs to die off from Cohost is blaming all of Cohost's problems as if they come from Twitter, or Tumblr, or Mastodon. No, the users that made you mad aren't "twitter brained". No, the CW discourse isn't related to "Mastodon's CW culture". Cohost's culture is Cohost Culture. All of the problems you saw from the other sites? The fighting, the drama, the assuming the worst of everyone? Those are social problems. Those are people problems. Twitter doesn't make people love drama. Mastodon doesn't make people not want to CW things (or CW them too aggressively). These are just people and their different personalities. A website's structure can influence the way people use it, but ultimately there have been people who loved drama or wanted to pick fights with people since well before the internet. Web 1.0 was full of this same shit on forums. So I'm exhausted by people saying "oh the problem is people are bringing their twitter brains to cohost which isn't like twitter!" No, that's just who people are. If Cohost is full of people like that, then it's Cohost brain. By writing these problems off as being inherent to other websites, you will never, ever turn Cohost into a different kind of site. The problems on Cohost are Cohost problems, and you have to acknowledge that to do anything about them. So stop with the Twitter Brain, stop with the Mastodon CWs, stop with the Tumblr Callouts. This is Cohost Brain. This is Cohost CWs. These are Cohost Callouts. This is all Cohost discourse. If you hate how that is, you need to tackle it from a Cohost perspective.