wraywolf

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some weird furry thing that's trying to make the best of a bad situation, just like anybody

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not having quick share makes using this site meh at best

why not just do a twitter style "tap to get a menu for just sharing or quote retweet" so i don't have to wait for the share page to load & don't find myself back at the top of my timeline afterwards

that & the "cohost feels like floating in space just out of reach of other people floating there & there is no way to reach out aside from bumping into each other by sheer coincidence" make me not want to use this site

like if you want to talk to someone there's no way to do so, you can't even ask them for a place to talk short of yelling about it in a random irrelevant comment on something they've posted

either i "just don't get it" or this site's design is just kinda dumb

wraywolf
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Signed. I want to love cohost, but there's a severe allergy to social media quality of life features built into the infrastructure here. I get it, "antisocial social media" and all, but the real problem with social media isn't that it's social media, it's that it's driven by ad revenue and investors that compell the services to install predatory behavior into the fabric of how it functions. So long as cohost remains independently funded and retains a strong respect for user privacy, it won't become like Twitter or facebook.

Cohost is a mostly good idea, hamstrung by a creedo that throws out the baby with the bathwater when it comes to distinguishing itself from other social media sites. I hope that changes one day, because the parts of this site I like I really really like. But there's just no place or function for LiveJournal 2 in the lives of the current day netitizenry.

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apologies for the long comment if it’s unwanted, but. as an alternative to using quick share (which doesn’t work on mobile currently), you can also open share pages in new tabs so you don’t lose your place on your timeline tab. it might be easier in some ways if the whole share interface opened as a big JS‐powered popup over top of your timeline, but this site doesn’t tend to do stuff like that. i personally prefer this, but not everyone prefers this. that’s ok! the 4‐person staff acknowledges that cohost isn’t for everyone, in part because doing that is impossible. i appreciate their transparency on their priorities and ideals, because it makes me feel like i actually know what’s going on with the management of the service i’m using. as someone who previously mostly lived on Twitter and YouTube, which regularly throw users into chaos for their own metrics, that makes me feel a lot more at ease here.

the main issues i have here are the occasional downtime (which still isn’t any worse than Twitter’s performance lately), and some missing features. but i know that lately they’ve been working hard on infrastructure changes recently to prevent more downtime, so features like 2FA will just have to wait a bit. something like direct messages would definitely be far down on their priorities list, despite how often they probably get it as a feature request, which makes sense to me. the way i see it, users who want to be contacted directly can just list an off‐site contact in their bio (e.g. website, email, Mastodon) in the interim (and indeed, i have used this to directly contact users on here before).

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