i know that this gets into a lot of things that aren't fungible like that, but i can only imagine how much better fedi could be if all the effort that went into sustaining cohost went into improving this place
Lady, EVOLVED 
@kit i mean, three people were taking tech salaries to nominally work on it over the course of three years, but that doesn’t tell you how much work was actually done, or how much those three people could have accomplished in this space.
i mean, part of the problem with cohost is that it was never open source and could not take outside contributions. they very intentionally did limit how much energy could be spent on the platform. and people on cohost were mostly fine continuing using that closed-source solution until now instead of building an open-source one that could survive a budget shortfall, so?
a lot of MONEY went into cohost, but that’s a different matter
@Lady@glitch.cat.family that's fair. still can't help but think that there's a real opportunity cost here all the same, even if it's not really quantifiable or even easily estimatable to me.
@Lady@glitch.cat.family from the staff's telling of it, too much for them to seek funding while spending $40k/month https://archive.is/nSbkS