I’m actually a bit sad about #Cohost shutting down.
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I’m actually a bit sad about #Cohost shutting down. I know it’s easy to lean back and view this with the typical Fedi schadenfreude, to tut-tut and say “Well, they didn’t build on the Fediverse. They should have known better.”
But, a small group of people tried to make a living building a nice community space that they liked, and they tried to build it ethically, and they tried to do it in a way that avoided perceived problems they had on Mastodon, and they tried to do it in a way where the staff got paid.
All of those things put together are so freaking hard to do. They built a space for themselves and their friends, worked hard to make something great, and gave it a unique identity. This is the conclusion.
Hats off to the Cohost team. I’m sorry it ended like this.