@stueytheround

Cyan and magenta!

@MotherDucker

Note that I’ve owned my Oasis since it came out and the only issue is (expected) battery life degradation. Other than that, it’s been perfect. I wanted the Colorsoft to be perfect too, but it clearly isn’t.

@Kurtroedeger

Flushed out or fleshed out? 💩

@th3j35t3r

JFC. 🙀

For those who’ve been considering…. The Kindle Colorsoft has a major manufacturing defect. Not sure if it’s hardware (likely) or software (nah) but it’s annoying. If you can check the screen out in-person before purchasing, I suggest you do so. Or buy from a reputable dealer that offers a no questions asked return policy, like Amazon or Best Buy. (Look at the yellow streak along the bottom of the reader just above the bezel.)

#CoSoTech #CaveatEmptor

@janallmac @AlphaCentauri

Yup! I’d share it with you! That way you’d only have to pay half of whatever you were going to pay!

@AlphaCentauri

What I’d love to see is a rich, silent, angel partner. Someone with enough money that paying $5000 a month is literally a rounding error to them. They don’t want influence. They don’t want special treatment. They just want CoSo to survive long-term.

@Fiikus_goddess

And Annie got one too. 😹

She’s staying downstairs on strike.

@AlphaCentauri

I wonder if there’s a way to increase community funding engagement without taking money from brands - which is effectively advertising no matter what you call it or how much you limit it. Brands are going to brand. It’s their sole purpose of being.

@sfleetucker @Qbae

🫦

@sfleetucker @Qbae

…having a fugue right in the middle of a sentence? 😹

@AverageCitizen @stueytheround

Well, it’s interesting to say “yes” for different reasons, too. Maybe you want to give brands the freedom to post but you don’t want them to be spammy? But any brand post is spammy by definition. It’s not technically an ad but it’s still someone trying to steal your attention with a brand related post. To me, if that’s all an account is, I do not personally welcome them here.

@InvaderGzim

Well, and CoSo has always been anti-advertising. If a company like NPR wanted to be a “contributing member” they would do so only for platform support, not for editorial priority. But yeah…not really sure how moving from a town (in your analogy) to a city would make things better, unless it helped us move the needle toward self-sufficiency. If we got a Stephen King and a million new users tomorrow and not a single one paid, would we be better off or worse?

@InvaderGzim

Also, what happens when CoSo gets big enough to attract news companies like, say, NPR (yay!) or FOX (superboo!). Do we let them share whatever they want? Do we tag non-human broadcast accounts as such? If so, do we have a “switch” in settings to allow us to automatically hide these non-human accounts?

@InvaderGzim

Ahh but Thoughts of a Dog and WeRates are humorous entertainment accounts. Not the same as Wendy’s which is trying to sell hamburgers by being witty. Totally not the same. I would absolutely embrace Thoughts of a Dog and WeRates. All give and no take. I’m just not a fan (instablock) of all take no give.

Someone got an emergency poopy-butt shower this morning and she is still upset.

#CoSoDogs #DogsOfCoSo #Izzy

@stueytheround

Yeah, that was my question: should we as a community welcome broadcasty brands here or not? My experience (all broadcasty brands blocked immediately) will differ from those who have a “live and let live” philosophy. Their CoSo experience will absolutely change as more brands start to broadcast here. I felt like we have an “only human” rule here but I don’t know how far that goes, which is why I polled my favorite audience of sentient NPCs. 😹

@sarcasmsign

David Sedaris talks about how mice will try to roll purloined cheese/food across the floor to their holes in the middle of the night. He likes the idea of them having a little pathway. But his house in Normandy is super old.

@stueytheround

Right, absolutely, but due to CoSo’s size, they aren’t going to be prioritizing CoSo for that level of support. @Autumn has almost 20,000 followers over on IG. When she asks a question of a brand, she gets a little more attention than the average person. I’m not sure I want CoSo to be that sort of site. When -I- see brands here, I block them.

And just to clarify, in my mind, a “brand” is something like Wendy’s or Bob’s BBQ Shack.

I’m okay with authors (I am an author) as long as they present as humans. Same goes with crafty people. Broadcast monsters get blocked.