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you know, i feel like "get a hobby" is a cheap comeback but i think this person should really get a hobby (that isn't making posts about internet drama). thx for the heads up

What a weird thing to clearly be spending a very large amount of your limited amount of time on Earth doing

wow this is some absolute loser shit lmfao

SIGH

what the fuck

Where do I even change that setting? I couldn’t find it under settings or profile. Thanks :/

wow! this is fucking weird!

Incredible loser shit. Appreciate the heads up.

I can't imagine writing or reading that much on a site with justified text

As someone that has used Pillowfort and saw the said post, I was already getting a bit antsy reading it again. I'll definitely keep an eye out on them. Regardless of their intentions, the way the posts are executed seem to come off as a bit of a pot stirrer... 🤔

I think what I dislike most about this is that they seem to pretty much only post about drama while presenting themselves as some sort of documentatian of cohost. from reading their posts the general impression is of a website that is continually at war with itself and nobody ever has fun rather than one where disagreements flare up occasionally on account of it being a website where posting happens. Additionally, I'm not sure you really need to be comprehensively hate-reading a website for data in order to say vagueposting can be bad

Cohost has issues but I can assure that Pillowfort has 100% of the same problems and maybe they should focus on solving the problems on their own platform instead... Every social media needs to have a discussion amongst their own about how it treats or alienates POC but the PF post feels like they are just foisting that discussion on another platform like theirs isn't guilty itself. I guarantee their site also has a white majority that isn't even remotely welcoming to POC, so like... glass houses and whatnot.

that darkmode diatribe has a disturbing amount of post references, sweet jesus. voyeuristic condescension much.

i left the "fuck you" comment if i get banned from hugbox or pillowfort or whatever i don't care

I have yet to see any notable drama on cohost though, but maybe I'm just in a bubble

reported

*links to like a dozen total scattered discourse posts* "wow the atmosphere on cohost has really soured. this place is for sure circling the toilet hole"

if they're really digging a block won't help, they'll just circumvent it

That's so interesting! First because it reminds me off how different people's feeds are in here.
But also because this Osteophage seems to be a little obsessed with correlating things. They keep mentioning "vagueposting" and "vagueblogging" and it sounded very weird to me. I mean that vagueposting looks like just a symptom of not being chronically online.
It can be that the meaning of "vagueposting" is lost on me due to language differences, but it seems so primal to watching or reading anything at all that in any social website everything can be characterized as "vague".
It's how people work, no one needs to know the full context to everything all of the time.
It looks like their aversion to letting things be vague leads them to constantly be trying to create conflicts and a bigger drama between loose posts.
But of course, that's just what it looks like to me.

idk, while i agree that the post you linked comes off that way, it seems like they also have interesting things to say about cohost’s design and culture that we could learn from, e.g. https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/3925854

for example, in one of their other “compilations” they talked about how, in practice and intentions aside, our comments system actually discourages commenting, which in turn makes conversations disjoint and prone to not hearing each other because people prefer adding their comments in reposts.

this is not limited to cohost either, they also talk about their experiences with livejournal, dreamwidth, wordpress, tumblr, and pillowfort itself: https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/312460

i guess what i’m saying is that they may just have an interest in analysing the dynamics of different platforms, and that talking about it elsewhere isn’t necessarily malicious.

whoa! they put me in the dark mode one! weird weird weird. I do love that their takeaway was “I can’t follow what y’all are talking about” as if my goal was to provide clarity for some external observer and not processing my own thoughts.

1. Pillowfort? Really? Site is so broken I had to find a workaround just to scroll down and read the post

2. I think it really says something about Cohost that their “drama post” that’s trying to be entertaining actually just feels like a pretty dry description of mostly reasonable people having a somewhat confusing conversation due to the medium. Like nobody at any point is actually inflammatory or says anything particularly outrageous. Meltdown May this is not.

Man, that's just what I need on this site that I don't deal with on any other.

The thing about this kinda behavior to me is like, not only is it just rude to mine other people's lives for social brownie points and entertainment

but it's also like, exhausting and depressing to do. There were a lot of people like this in the speedrun community, who made youtube videos about speedrun drama. Some of them are dead now literally because of it. It kinda sucks away at you, to make your THING harvesting drama and bad vibes.

the stuff they're tracking seems so... tame?? is this actually entertaining? I dunno maybe I've been spoiled by mastodon discourse

i get the urge to rubberneck drama as someone who used to follow fandom drama communities in the 2000s but like. that was usually pretty interesting to outsiders? you'd have writeups of people claiming to be dating fictional characters on the astral plane, or pretending to be in a coma so that people would write them smallville mpreg fanfic. i don't get what's interesting about "here's 90 links to people on another website discussing how dark mode does/doesn't/should/shouldn't function on that particular website" unless you're using that website. this is the most boring possible gossip

Kinda just seems like they're reporting on different Internet drama in an unbiased way. Plenty of creators do that. The link provided covers the posts concerning the lack of racial diversity on this site which WAS derailed. The comments on the post (from the link) draw comparisons to this sites users and Twitter users and now I see it.

woah weird i'm in this post i guess i'm famous now

yeah, this bit definitely makes me feel like i was being a bit too charitable to this person with my earlier comment in this thread