cohost to shut down at end of 2024

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• rimu@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Very extensive background saga, if anyone is interested: https://hackers.town/@lori/110656825941689147

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  • MysticKetchup@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Man, what a mess. This site was doomed to fail

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• user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  this space intentionally left blank while we wait for people to frequently ask questions

  I thought FAQs were always just made up.

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  • EvilCartyen@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I add stuff to FAQs when I am fucking tired of answering the same old dumb questions

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• maegul@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yea the writing had been on the wall for a while AFAIU. I don’t know what lessons are to be gleaned from its story, but I’d bet at a basic level it’s that building new social media spaces is not easy. An old school forum is likely fine. But a whole platform with all of the expectations and features people have today, hard if not impossible.

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• pr06lefs@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wow never heard of this platform. RIP

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• rglullis@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wait, I thought that running a social media server costs only a few cents per user? The Lemmy crowd told me so!

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  • koncertejo@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    server costs were not the biggest reason, it was down to salary costs

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    • rglullis@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I was being sarcastic. Last week there was a big thread here were most admins people were equating “support the Fediverse” with “pay for the costs of hardware”.

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• halm@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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