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a bunbot, a small-witch, a workbench, a plushie, and the moments of existence around us. 25. main proj -> @fragment.

profile art ->
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hrt START - 09/NOV/22


felicia
@felicia

What I'm trying to say is, since Twitter is dying and people seem to be migrating more to Tumblr and Masto than here, it's starting to feel like Cohost will not come on top of the social media succession wars.

But this is still my favorite one, and so I will stay here. This site is safe and uncompromising, and my close friends are here. Despite popularity and all, this may become my true "main".

tldr I wuv eggbug


vogon
@vogon

we had started the closed beta before elon even tendered an offer for twitter; a lot of the things we could do to "win" are things we consider morally unacceptable; and even if another platform wins for now, we think there's a pretty decent chance that their users are going to realize that they left in haste for somewhere that still suffers from the same fundamental problems (save for the one where it got acquired)

our goals are:

a) build a place people like spending time on -- one that feels more social than patreon and easier to make a living off of creative works on than twitter;
b) hopefully have enough revenue that we can afford to pay the bills


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in reply to @felicia's post:

While Mastodon does seem to be the default Twitter replacement, somehow I just don't really "get" it, and I don't quite know why. Between the oddities of federation and the kinda spammy public timeline I just don't feel comfortable.

Meanwhile, Cohost feels like if old school Twitter took a different path and that makes me happy.

Yeah I'm in the same boat. Every time I'm on Mastodon it just seems.. weird. The server thing is cool I think from a tech stand point but it's hard to fully like.. understand? I know for me when picking a server it felt like "oh god, I don't want to pick the wrong one". Especially since a lot have a theme or something to them, where with Social Media I just sort of want to post whatever comes into my mind rather than like, needing to stay within certain parameters. Feels almost like joining a subreddit, and then that's just where you can post or people can follow you directly

mastodon is somewhat of a niche thing, i feel like. i enjoy the tech and the instance i'm in but the fediverse isn't really built to be a mainstream social media; even though they've been attempting to make it more accessible during this twitter purge, it's not a twitter replacement because it's conceptually different from twitter. and if you don't care about FOSS, there's even less appeal to join, so there's that...

to me, cohost is like golden age tumblr, before the porn ban. even better than tumblr, actually. i really like this place :eggbug:

in reply to @vogon's post:

re: the "more social than patreon and easier to make a living off of creative works on than twitter" part: i currently subscribe to umpteen different people on patreon, mostly writers (where i'm paying for a product -- early access to chapters of serials, mostly) and also a few youtubers (people who make tutorials for hobbies of mine + who i want to support but am not really paying for a product). is an eventual goal of cohost that instead of going to patreon for those things I could (if the creators were here) do that all on cohost? paywalled content etc etc?

i understand if some/all of this can't be talked about yet but as someone whose single biggest monthly entertainment budget item is probably patreon subs, looking forward to see what y'all do in that realm

yep! that's one of the big things we want to ship, we've just been too busy doing shorter-term bugfixing and usability improvements after twitter blew up to make much progress on that yet

I like cohost as an addition to my social media arsenal. A way to connect with people I care about, and new people who I could potentially like. I don't need it to be Twitter, I already have Twitter and many other platforms trying to be it.

ooc is there anywhere we can see a roadmap pertaining to these goals? A lot of creative/artist success is contingent on the presence of non-artists as part of fandoms/communities on the platform - a street fighter artist will reach people following street fighter, an undertale artist will reach people following undertale, and so on. so to me the #1 priority toward that end would be producing robust community features that encourage people to form communities not centered on, but still including artists in the bigger picture. It's why tumblr was so good for artists before the NSFW purge, it was a website built around socializing and community enrichment first.