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you can say "chimoora" instead of "cow of tailed snake" if you want. its a good pun.
i ramble about aerospace sometimes
I take rocket photos and you can see them @aWildLupi
I have a terminal case of bovine pungiform encephalopathy, the bovine puns are cowmpulsory
they/them/moo where "moo" stands in for "you" or where it's funny, like "how are moo today, Lupi?" or "dancing with mooself"
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hello everyone
no patch notes to share this week! right now we're just applying the finishing touches to asks and some API changes. there were some plans to launch it late this week, but we're going to push it to approximately next tuesday.1
we're also about ready to launch our new community guidelines. more details to come sometime next week. see y'all then!
thanks for using cohost
monday is a federal holiday
pon't host
Given the web site i'm on, i read it as "feral holiday" and thought "yup makes sense, have a wild one staff"
By the way, the site has been performing incredibly smoothly and responsively lately. Hats off to you folks!
when (if at all) will financial updates return? I liked reading those 
NO PATCH VINE BOOM
NO NOTES VINE BOOM
AND PROBABLY NO CHOSTS EITHER
good work y'all, eat some hotdogs or whatever this monday
Regarding the upcoming community guidelines, I hope to someday see Cohost fully allow sexualized cub and underage fiction, except for that which is also hate speech, revenge porn, or CSAM.
When underage fiction is created by and for adults who try to be even a little bit responsible with it, it is an asset to its community, giving people a window into finding neglected and needful parts of themselves and giving them some of the resources to nourish those parts without imposing their needs on other people. A person who understands their needs and what meets them can express their consent more confidently than ever. I've personally experienced what it's like to keep finding myself hurt and confused in sex well into adulthood because I refused to embrace things about myself, so I guess I'm speaking for myself here.
These works express such a wide range of human experience, too. No one stereotype can contain it all, and it's artwork that gives plenty back to the wider conversation of human expression.
If there is any subset you see the need to suppress, please at least understand your reasons for doing so. Please inspect those reasons to be sure you've removed all the fascist and go-along-to-get-along influences you feasibly can, especially watching out for any reasoning based on painting groups of people as "gross" or "suspicious" with a broad brush. If your reasons have to do with a present practical issue your team faces with the moderation needs of such a subculture, please strive eventually to develop and revise your team so that it will be more capable of meeting those needs.
I've expressed this message here and now because I understand that expressing it after more details have been revealed may be too late.
Thank you for making Cohost. I had high hopes when I first learned of Cohost that it would be a platform that rejected fascism at every turn. That isn't easy, and I'm going to try to take heart in whatever decision you make that you're doing the best you can.
I'd like to add a few points here to clarify my position.
For managing legal risks, I'd love if Cohost had features that users could use to avoid seeing posts that may be illegal in their jurisdictions. I'm not hoping for some free-for-all where every post is treated the same as every other.
Rules against hate speech, sexual harassment, etc. should all still exist, of course. Many people's first thought of loli and shota art is the super-popular Shadman, and that's annoying because most loli and shota artists and authors I've found don't play coy with the lines of hate speech and sexual harassment the way Shadman does. I would hope Shadman's Nazi-like persona would be an immediate rule violation here on Cohost, before you even have to consider the content of his posts or his off-site conduct.
A pedophile experiences an attraction a lot of other people don't. Can it lead to incalculable harm? Yeah, it can. Sometimes when someone's heart is screaming that they need something, the idea that the resultant harm could possibly be worse than what they're feeling becomes an abstract, academic concept. Denying that there is a risk there would be very wrong.
Attraction to minors isn't unique in this regard. Many straight men who find themselves increasingly desperate for fulfillment resort to pick-up artistry and abuse adult women. Many people of all genders and ages can get carried away and make mistakes in consent. Regulating attraction is an important life skill for all who will experience attraction.
At least two things can particularly help someone say no to acting poorly on their feelings of attraction: Confidence that other people have gone through the intense feelings they're going through and still made good choices, and confidence that the situation they're in now won't be the only chance in their life to experience the fulfillment their heart's been yearning for.
It is indeed possible for people with paraphilias to find the fulfillment they yearn for, in a variety of forms that don't cause the issues one might expect. Sometimes simulated porn is fulfilling. Sometimes playing out simulated fantasies with other adults is fulfilling.
The intimate moments can happen in private, but it's important for there to be communities and a certain amount of public awareness and acceptance of those communities. That way, newcomers to these feelings know where they can find resources, relationships, and role models for healthy expression, they can broach the topic with people they already trust to make sure these resources aren't misleading them, and they don't have to stumble through figuring it all out on their own. Stumbling through is how people get hurt.
Instead of pursuing a society that's safe to both minors and pedophiles, many people want to enact violence on all the pedophiles in the world until the minors are safe.
Some safety that is. There are pedophile children in the world, too, you know? Imagine being a child whose parents would kill them if they found out. Many of us probably don't have to.
People who are equipped to implement this kind of violence, and who take it as their duty to do so, will have to be violent to a few extra groups they think of as pedophiles in the process, just to be sure. And that's if they mean well! This is already what's going on. Comparing various people to pedophiles is already how campaigns of violence are justifying themselves to the world.
I don't want a belief in this approach to be accepted in society. Not one little bit. Stop fascism at the source.
As a meta note, this follow-up addresses some topics raised by a couple of people who replied to me here and then blocked me. After the second time it happened, I decided it might be worth writing something even at the risk of skirting some block evasion etiquette. I respect the blocking preferences of those who responded, and I have no hard feelings against them nor a need for them to read my words. It's a hard topic for everyone. My words here are meant primarily for the consideration of the Cohost staff.
what the hell are y'all doing with the response to That Image:tm:, if it's "not against the rules"... change the rules y'all are staff
Heads up: the post input field on Firefox is extremely choppy right now, I don’t know how to report this other than here :P
