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For those of us interested in more ethical, user-focused social platforms, it's worth understanding how these ventures can go wrong. To that end, start at the Good Web Graveyard: a link compilation on departed websites that had marketed themselves in terms of ethics. Avoiding exploitative business models isn't itself a guarantee of failure, but plenty of other things are, and by reading up on what's gone defunct, we can learn to recognize the warning signs.

If there is anything about Cohost that you think is worth replicating, then it's worth understanding why it folded in the end. In the wake of the shutdown announcement, I've seen several competing narratives and explanations for what happened, and sorting this stuff out matters for figuring out what kind of lesson to take from it. So in light of that, this retrospective is my attempt to log and detangle some of those narratives, starting with a brief recap to bring you up to speed.

Crossposted to Pillowfort.

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When websites encourage their users to rely on unmoderated tag searches as topic subscriptions, they run the risk of encouraging the pasta convention paradigm. The pasta convention paradigm originates from Tumblr but is liable to crop up on sites with similar features with regard to bookmarking tags. Bookmarked tags, in these contexts, become treated as makeshift community pages, but they lack any of the appropriate tools for moderation, which sets people up for needless frustration and disappointment.

Crossposted to Pillowfort.

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