@jdp23 @brainwane @pho4cexa From statements of some ex‐snouts.online people on Twitter, the impression that people got was that they were disillusioned with federation, tired of fediverse drama, and thought a single, insular culture with paid moderators was a better social approach. All of these opinions would form the bedrock of Cohost.What I want to emphasize here is that these were often literally the same queer users, and certainly descendants of the same queer culture, which got Mastodon rightly criticized for being unwelcoming to people of colour in 2017 when Mastodon was first making it big. The special, magical vibes that Cohost had were in many ways a recreation of the special, magical vibes that Mastodon had back in December of 2016 when it was only one instance and everybody knew everybody else. From being present on the Mastodon side of that, I know that that culture, while very nice for a certain kind of weird white trans person, was built on exclusion.