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7fqx | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I consider the jankiness part and parcel of Nostr. Tinkerers and hobbyists, mad max shed coders etc. lol. It also unintentionally serves as some sort of signal of something similar to using Craigslist's forums 'streetsmarts needed here, proceed with caution'. IMO
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laanwj | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 i mean, having seen people extremely enthusiastic about cohost of all things (at the time), i'm convinced people can overlook a lot of technical jankiness if the experience and community is fun to them 😀
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7fqx | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Had to look up cohost 👀is it over?
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laanwj | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 yes it was a twitter clone spawned by one of the many Musk dramas, which basically looked and worked like someone rolled something in php 2000's style, on a shoestring budget 😀 

which it was, the idea was that it was run by some organization with by-laws that would prevent the excesses of twitter like data harvesting, algorithmic rage boosting, advertisement, abuse of moderation and so on, but they didn't have any plan at all to cover costs

and not surprisingly, went out of business quite quickly