Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[kaleidoscopium]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cohost-lost-contact-with-their-main-funder-and-may-shut-down-soon.826692/?post=120472689#post-120472689

I've lightly followed the drama with this social media site, but it seemed to always be started from this space of petty grievance. "We're a software company that hates the software industry," well, ok. It's hard to build a community solely around grievance and have it be self-sustainable, because eventually the grievance comes for you, and if your business model or anti-business model is built off of donations it's hard to float that for long with that mentality.

I wish I'd had a better experience with Cohost but my experience was heavily coloured by joining right before they tried to enshrine protections for certain types of CSAM into the site rules last year (which they thankfully walked back after the userbase went "The fuck are you doing?") and then asking for my account to be deleted which took them several months to do.

I really like cohost and it's become my primary social media site. I'm not counting it out quite yet.