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idadeerz
@idadeerz

i wish i could stay optimistic about cohost but i will always remember it as the website where i got harassed for weeks about fucking yinglets. the website where i could post a 80,000x80,000 image of a dog that crashed people's browsers and the bug itself never got fixed afaik. the website with all the baffling financial decisions that ultimately killed it. i'll remember the loli/cub discourse. and the racism discourse. and the OTHER racism discourse.

i'm not in a mood for remembering. i'm mostly just angry. i think a lot of this was avoidable and there are people to blame. cohost didn't have to die. and cohost slowly dying should have never taken such a huge toll on its users.

i will remember cohost as a failed social experiment of what happens if you put queer tech furries in the same space together. you don't get less infighting, you just get increasingly more specific infighting over shit that matters even less.


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i will be honest, i dont think cohost couldve survived
not because i dont believe in it but because the idea of "we dont sell your data or put advertisement anywhere" makes keeping something running 50x harder
it CAN work if you have a large userbase ready before and a way for them to pay but as is a free to use site with almost no monitisation is doomed from the start

maybe thats me being pessimisstic but idk
the features read as a "we have no good income source"

sure stripe didnt help either but i doubt tipping people wouldve added enough revenue to keep it afloat for much longer

I think the plan was always to attempt the most ideal, non-intrusive way to make money from willing participation of users rather than being shitty, it was a worth wile attempt, they really did try, but alas.

I don't think there was anything wrong with trying, I'm glad they did! it was definitely worth a shot and hey in another time in another place someone else will try cohost 2 and will find a way to make it work maybe....

hey in another time in another place someone else will try cohost 2

In my eyes Cohost was already Waterfall 2, right down to aiming to fund the website by taking a cut from artists.

But anyway, as long as people are talking about making it work in a hypothetical future tense, I think it's worth pointing out that other people have already made it work (see below).

it CAN work if you have a large userbase ready before and a way for them to pay but as is a free to use site with almost no monitisation is doomed from the start

Cohost does have a paid premium features option, which in a broad sense is the same business model as Dreamwidth, and Dreamwidth has made it work for more than ten years and counting -- certainly not because of a large userbase. So we know it's achievable because it's already been achieved.

aye that is fair
im not aware of dreamwave and havent been before
still at the very least you cant disagree that being sipported largely by premium users makes it harder to operate such a site
it was nice while it lasted though, even if i didnt use it much

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