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Sorrow is a savage beast

he/they

not preticipating in any cohost tag games

0_+@something-soup-something3/17/2024, 4:32 PM

bcj @bcj

bcj @bcj3/16/2024, 5:50 PM

If you think you are more invested in the future of this website then staff you need to calm down

made the mistake of looking at the meta and now the mistake of adding to the feedback loop.

This website is not my friend it's a place to hang out with friends. I really like it here so I'll continue to do that for however long it lasts and it's fun. If it goes away I'll hang out with friends elsewhere. I'll miss some people and I'll make some new friends. A site going away will not turn me into a refugee. Have some perspective.

Staff's salaries, which are not particularly high for tech salaries in the places where they live are not the difference between this site being sustainable or not and I assure you the people making those salaries have more on the line than you do about whether the site succeeds. I like this site a lot but I am more interested in staff being paid fairly and making enough to be comfortable than I am the site surviving. I don't want to hang out on a site where people work long hours for no money out of some mysterious belief that a website is more important than them

#cohost meta

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Coda @Codarobo3/16/2024, 6:26 PM

I agree with some aspects of this, but I don't think what you're saying applies to everyone here broadly. I think for some categories of people who use cohost, its continued existence is actually worth a potential expenditure of personal effort to help it continue to exist; either/both because a site like cohost has value to them beyond it simply being where people they know are, or because they are in a specific situation in which they could enthusiastically offer that effort/have the skillset/time to do so.

Thinking a lot about the ongoing situation with sites banning NSFW content more and more, and how cohost is currently serving an important purpose as a site where people can post NSFW artwork that other sites increasingly ban.

that said, I absolutely don't think that moving away from a full-time paid staff is something we should shoot for or desire from cohost; and I do think that emergency measures could allow for a variety of potential ways for the site to have continuity in the event of funding collapse, and we could avoid yet another archive of niche queer artwork getting obliterated by the realities of capitalism. That could just be a static archive in the interim or whatever (and there's already been a serious offer by a user to handle such an archive), but in any case discussing options for keeping stuff that exists on this site online is not frivolous to me.