I've been reading a lot of responses people have had to Cohost shutting down.
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I've been reading a lot of responses people have had to Cohost shutting down.
I still think it's massively irresponsible to build a platform specifically for marginalized people with no plan for how to make it viable long-term.
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@mrencyclopedia I've said this before but like...it reminds me of people who have tried to start Queer Communes. The buy a shitty parcel of land that they could afford only because it's unusable, far away from anything, then they get online and start advertising for other queer people, usually mentally ill, homeless, poor, etc. queer people desperate for somewhere to go to come join them. Now they're all out in the desert or swamp with no shelter, nowhere near a doctor, barely anything to eat, and no support network except each other which tends to go pretty poorly. Then of course it's hard for those people to leave because they've not been working jobs that bring in money this whole time so they're more broke than they started.
I don't really find that to be much of a kindness to those folks!
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@mrencyclopedia and so essentially a site like Cohost feels like the same sort of thing...you dragged everyone out into the desert to start a farm then realized you had no plan to get running water out there and they all thought when they went there you knew what you were doing and would take care of them
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@lori @mrencyclopedia There is sort of a Classic Dilemma here, to wit: the kind of person who doesn't think this stuff through in advance tends to launch half-baked, unsustainable things. But the kind of person who does think this stuff through in advance tends to get scared off by the complexity of the problem and launch nothing at all