Necromanticist

okay, yes, but also, this site is run by four people and you simply don't have access to their end of the platform, what their roadmap looks like, how everything is stacked. there's gotta be some measure of grace for them when virtually all of the alternatives are corporate hellscapes that just want to be Another Twitter. yes obviously advocate for your needs, yes obviously the devs can always do better, but building something that lasts takes time, and in my experience the thing that lasts is worth the wait.

and frankly, i just don't understand the hostility. this website has existed for like a year. calling this a "vote blue no matter who" situation is honestly insulting. you're comparing a gerryrigged political economy maintained by two equally corrupt national party organs to four people trying to make a website that's better than one made by thousands. no, you don't have obligation to "brands," but if you want future social media sites to give a shit about the needs of its users more than how many ads they can shove in your face or how much data they can scrape off you, you should at least develop a baseline respect & patience for the limited time and manpower of the workers behind it. even if you don't agree with all their priorities, even if they're objectively moving slow (which i don't think is the case for cohost, but to each their own), the fact is that there's no rulebook for ethically reproducing the experience we've come to expect from corporate social media and there are vanishingly few alternatives out there even making the attempt. yes, cohost isn't fully featured yet and lacks some basic accessibility options and you're well within your right to be frustrated about that (and plenty of people are, and are vocally requesting features in comments on staff updates, so it's not like you're a lone voice here)-- but again, this place has been around for all of a year. functionally speaking it's in open beta. at least here, i have tremendous confidence that the website can grow and change with my needs over time, as the people who run cohost also use cohost the same way i do, which simply is not true for other social media.

so it's imperfect. do you really want to write the whole thing off, throw it under the bus, and then jump ship back to tumblr or bluesky or fucking threads, and let yet another venture capital monstrosity define the next dominant parasitic social media paradigm? a sustainable, ethically-operated platform simply cannot move at the pace we've come to expect from its corporate peers. that's not laziness or obstinance or whatever, that's just a material fact. if that just doesn't factor into your calculus with this stuff or you really don't understand why it should, then i'd suggest some very serious soul searching about where your priorities lie as a leftist and a socially conscious internet user.