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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
Cohost going readonly at the end of this month, and shutting down at the end of the year: https://cohost.org/staff/post/7611443-cohost-to-shut-down
Their radical idea of building a social network that did not require a either VC funding or large amounts of volunteer labour has come to a disappointing, if not entirely surprising end. Going in without a great idea on how to monetise the thing was probably not the best strategy as it turns out.
To be clear: Cohost did take funding from an anonymous angel, and as a result will not be sharing their source code; quoting from your link:
Somebody paid a very small amount of money to get a cleanroom implementation of Tumblr and did not mind that they would have to build a community and then burn it to the ground in the process. It turns out that angels are not better people than VCs.
Looking at both cohost and tumblr, I donāt think the funder has an asset thatās worth very much.
Yeah, having the source to a site (even if it includes stuff like day to day ops, backups etc) isnāt worth much if you donāt have a community. Itās a bit like āopen sourceā LLMs, sure you can run a mudball of python on your computer but the real worth is in ingesting and classifying.
i used (and use, until the shutdown) cohost as my primary social media site. iām not surprised, but i canāt say it hasnāt been disappointing. for all the issues it has (and it did have a lot) it was pretty much the only site that felt somewhat cozy to use for me. stings quite a bit
Iām not shocked.
these are the exact finances of a startup that failed to start
A small Lemmy or Mastodon thatās run by some guy and takes donations for hosting has a better grasp of funding than Cohost did
(smashes imaginary intercom button) āWho is this āsome guyā? Find him and find out what he knows!!ā
I never used Cohost, but I know a couple people who do and fuuuuuuuck this sucks. 'Least Newgrounds is still going, though thatās a bit of an apples-to-oranges comparison.