Since we're all talking about #Cohost, I think now is a good time to think about what we do and don't count as "dunking" or dancing on graves.
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Since we're all talking about #Cohost, I think now is a good time to think about what we do and don't count as "dunking" or dancing on graves.
Is it reprehensible to point to past predictions that turned out to be true? Is it bad to say, "I think X, Y, Z decisions could have been made better"? Is it acceptable to _wish_ things had come out a different way?
Do we need to convince ourselves that this is the best of all possible worlds in order to not be accused of being callous and bitter?
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@noracodes I guess this mean Cohost is no more?
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Katja (lawyer!) Antares, a 🐈🐉.replied to !!__NORA__!! last edited by
@noracodes I think it's somewhat of a question of the nature of someone's criticisms and, honestly, the tone with which they're talking about it.
There's a huge difference between
• POC loudly not caring much that a website whose staff failed to prevent a ton of racist harassment is going down and making a few general jabs at white people who really liked the site
and, say,
• people whose beef with the site is basically that they aggressively didn't fit in with site culture going out of their way to hound anyone with anything positive to say about the site with absolutely clownish allegations about the site staff's motives, or
• people whose fundamental issue with the site genuinely *was* that it was *trying* to be less toxic doing some victory lap around Weird Cringe People Who Think (Twitter/Tumblr/Mastodon/Bluesky) are toxic
or whatever.
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!!__NORA__!!replied to Katja (lawyer!) Antares last edited by
@katja Can you give some examples of said "clownish accusations", or the latter category? I absolutely believe that they're out there but I'm lucky to not have seen any so far.