I'm really trying to enjoy cohost still because I need to keep up with people only there, but there's just so much "lol masto culture sux" discourse that it just feels frustrating and toxic half the time.

@Facet imagine being annoyed about cw's

@Facet that was catty of me, i should try to be more doggy

and maybe i'll just muffle the term "mastodon" on there

@Facet ah, i can only do it if it's a tag. pff.

@astra Unfortunate. I try not to make a scene out of all of it, but every time I think I've weeded out people doing that stuff, it keeps coming back up.

They really love their "dunk on everything but cohost, the site designed to not be a replacement for other social media" discourse.

@Facet @astra Techbro elitism is just the worst. Like, they can't even be happy in their preferred platform, they have to be miserable and shit on other people's choices of platforms.

@FreyaManibrandr @astra I'm willing to accept it as just a culture thing. There's a part of cohost that's... Weirdly obsessed with itself and cohost being an inherently superior and singular platform, and it leads to a lot of people getting awful, extremified takes about fedi and other media and blowing them up into a whole, cultish thing.

I've tried pulling the veil off this skewed rhetoric and showing how and where it doesn't make sense, but it's still there, even if less common these days.

@Facet @astra It really is just a cult. They should all go outside and touch grass.

@FreyaManibrandr @astra I don't really dislike it as a site all that much, but I really feel like, the closer you get to the people that make up the staff's inner social circle, the more bizarre the energy is.

@FreyaManibrandr @astra And I can't begin to pretend that it isn't all a meritocracy of "how much can I provide content that pleases that inner circle?"