cohost was pretty decent but also the economics mismanagement (esp the lack of transparency and planning) and cliqueyness here was really really apparent. like it's a shame it couldn't get better but also...yeah they kinda didn't try to do much to solve the situation around it.
idk seeing people praise Tumblr 2 as if it was some sort of tolerant marxist haven is so wild when they literally had a sitewide discussion weeks on why the userbase was so white and tended to harass non yank non white people off the site lol. like i wouldn't be as mad about this if the site culture wasn't based on being as smug about being better than everyone else as it was. it's not as bad as twitter at all, but y'all had a huge inferiority complex over having a site culture derivative of tumblr's lol
either way, it's a shame it couldn't have the chance to get better, i kinda was starting to talk and post more here. i actually did like the way you could talk about niche topics and subculture things in cohost quite a bit despite my criticisms, and by the end i did get more people to talk to there than tumblr. but also it was still very much like its parent, warts and all lmao. sorry for not being kinder and stuff in this post but i kind of felt burned by the site after seeing the users do the exact same things they constantly say this site never does lol. at least i got to meet a bunch of my friends again here! hope i see them again
like i think my dissappointment with the site are less with the site itself and more with the fact that the userbase kind of had a huge (and very parasocial) superiority complex over people who....used other sites. or even like, were on cohost but also had other socials. and it wouldn't be as bad if that complex wasn't based on saying they don't do stuff here that they do in other sites while doing those exact same things lol. being smug about not being racist and ableist while doing exactly that comes off as very hypocritical, and it wouldn't stand out that much if the site culture didn't revolve around denying or belitting those things and constantly comparing itself to other places instead of talking about what is good about here. you all acted as if spies from Other Sites were wanting to destroy this place, while like. barely anyone knows cohost exists lmao
sorry for being so bitter, it's just that after the renkon thing i'm like. you all really are tumblr again and in constant denial about it lol.