cohost - A less-toxic Twitter alternative?

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I think this thread was a needful sir. Although it's a little shallow because cohost is indeed less popular mastodon alternative.
In fact I would say that the lack of twitter defining features (character limit and likes) makes cohost look more like it's owners are more like tumblr diaspora and tumblr being their main inspiration. CSS for post reminds me too much of tumblr profile customization.

Cohost is being developed by three fags who call themselves "Anti Software Software Club". (obviously a nod to the clothing brand)
ASSC is claiming to be proudly 100% worker owned, "non-for-profit" which could be misleading as non-profit, they're not. Cohost profits directly from their donation and future planned subscription model, also buy the merch plz.
Obviously being a leftie worker owned company, they must have a manifesto, from which I literally understood nothing about anything.
I read their ToS and Privacy Policy and it doesnt seem too much different from other tech social media, there aren't really any guarantees for them to NOT track you and NOT sell your data.

All three of them are permanently stuck on twitter weirdos, for which I must say, even mastodon developers have more faith in their platform then these fucks.
Not only that but they proudly put their twitter accounts fairly visibly in cohost.org footer, especially outrageous being ASSC website which doesn't even include links to their cohost profiles, only twitter ones.
They all explain their usage of twitter despite of owning their own platform some copious explanation that cohost is a long-form factor microblogging website, and that short posts belong on twitter.

If someone wants some homework I would say looking into their past employment history would be great, they all claim to "all left jobs at conventional tech companies to build cohost", which looking at how the website looks, might be quite an over-estimate.
Additionally this is might be me missremembering, but I thought cohost was always invite-only, they only seem to open it up recently.
 
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Short Circuit said:
If someone wants some homework I would say looking into their past employment history would be great, they all claim to "all left jobs at conventional tech companies to build cohost", which looking at how the website looks, might be quite an over-estimate.
Additionally this is might be me missremembering, but I thought cohost was always invite-only, they only seem to open it up recently.
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Made a throw away linkedin and these are the previous experience of the two that have links to the anti software software club on linkedin. Can't find Colin Bayer.
 
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"[...] the idea that underage users can make 18+ posts is very..... strange. It doesn't make sense at all." ( Permalink )
  • Response to the above from staff: "it's peculiar, but the other options are worse!"
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Now that's fucking juicy, but please archive your shit (assuming someone didn't beat me to the punch). Here's the archive.
 
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I or someone else could set up a burner account on this social media site however given their stance on CP this will obviously be used as a fed honeypot. I for one don't want to be put on a list just because I want to share information found on the pedophiles there. Besides, it wont survive long as they're all liberal minded fools and obviously nonces. Remember back around 2014-15 when they were all going to flee to Mastodon? Yeah look how that ended.
 
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Update: Added staff deets to the OP along with Jess and gave credits to users who gave useful info. I think the OP's pretty good at this point, so I'm going to ask for a review.
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Just spotted that you gave me the credit for finding the three behind the project. It was actually @Shortcircuit I just found their employment history on linkedin.
 
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Keeping my fingers crossed that this site miraculously takes off and becomes retarded tranny quarantine.
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The festering abscess that is tumblr burst long ago, flooding these degenerates all over the Internet. I don't think they will ever be fully quarantined, but maybe that's just me being too doomer.
 
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AbduluCthuluZulu said:
Assuming it stays a quarantine zone, and the elites don't just pack up and move everything to Cohost while declaring Twitter obsolete like Myspace.
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They won’t. The elites have put far too much of their sunk cost into twitter. Twitter simply has too much brand recognition, unlike MySpace which catered to the Livejournal and pre-Tumblr crowds.

The only way twitter gets abandoned is if Elon physically pulls the plug, psycho obsessive journos need messages in 140 characters or less (for quick easy reads) from righties to twist into hit pieces.
 
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Short Circuit said:
Cohost is being developed by three fags who call themselves "Anti Software Software Club". (obviously a nod to the clothing brand)
ASSC is claiming to be proudly 100% worker owned, "non-for-profit" which could be misleading as non-profit, they're not. Cohost profits directly from their donation and future planned subscription model, also buy the merch plz.
Obviously being a leftie worker owned company, they must have a manifesto, from which I literally understood nothing about anything.
I read their ToS and Privacy Policy and it doesnt seem too much different from other tech social media, there aren't really any guarantees for them to NOT track you and NOT sell your data.
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Awesome, I approve of misleading people about their incorporation.

Their manifesto doesn't actually say anything. Sure, there's lots of words but the only thing they said they'd do "different" is only employees can own equity in the company which actually isn't very different from many companies. If you saw the part where they talked about the evils of capitalism and linked to some PDF on marxists.org and are wondering if this means the company will always maintain equal equity among all employees then you should shut the fuck up and just buy some merch already.

Also because they're idiots they seemed to imply that any money the company makes will not be spent on cohost:
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Colin Bayer does indeed have a small footprint, but I did uncover a misleadingly titled letter he signed while a student and/or employed at the University of Washington: https://medium.com/@against.transphobia/googlers-against-transphobia-and-hate-b1b0a5dbf76
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Here's a game he worked on for MolyJam back in 2012:
 
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Awesome, I approve of misleading people about their incorporation.

Their manifesto doesn't actually say anything. Sure, there's lots of words but the only thing they said they'd do "different" is only employees can own equity in the company which actually isn't very different from many companies. If you saw the part where they talked about the evils of capitalism and linked to some PDF on marxists.org and are wondering if this means the company will always maintain equal equity among all employees then you should shut the fuck up and just buy some merch already.

Also because they're idiots they seemed to imply that any money the company makes will not be spent on cohost:
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Colin Bayer does indeed have a small footprint, but I did uncover a misleadingly titled letter he signed while a student and/or employed at the University of Washington: https://medium.com/@against.transphobia/googlers-against-transphobia-and-hate-b1b0a5dbf76
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Here's a game he worked on for MolyJam back in 2012:
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These people really don't know how businesses are run. This is going to fold quicker than I thought and have the IRS involved.
 
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Honestly, I wish them luck. The less concentrated on big platforms the internet is, the better. If troons want their own hugbox platform then sure, whatever.

However, they’ve fucked themselves over with their TOS and that business model. They can fix the TOS but I really don’t think you can run any social media platform of scale solely off donations, especially not troon donations.

Also they need to ban the loli shit. It’s never worth attracting those people to your platform.
 
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I love Cohost.

It's a website overdosed in kawaii aesthetics that hides a dark, authoritarian ethos.

Unsurprisingly created by and for people of gender.

I really love when they present me things in a really hypercondensed way. It´s almost like art.
 
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