I guess I see three distinct things in the "theres too much tech posting on cohost" stuff:

• many users first follow staff, who, being staff, post technical things as people with jobs tend to do about things related to their job or field.

  • I don't know why that's a cohost problem though and not a follow other people problem?
  • There's an undercurrent in the past like, year of people thinking staff should have what amounts to both corporate PR resources and like, managed posting accounts and I just want u to listen to yourselves if you believe that

• many users don't tag their more niche stuff or personal stuff, so it's harder to find people through tags, especially with tags being flooded with art. Thats why they follow staff.

  • But them being flooded with art is it's own counterexample to the majority-tech-posts thing, isn't it?

• some people posting about this facet may be so used to algorithms filtering out similar posts and serving you ones from randos that they don't actually see how much tech posting happens on other platforms to no fault of their own.

but I still feel like I'm missing something, because like 9/10 posts I see on my feed aren't... technical? They weren't from the start, either, when there was an even higher density of technical people.

people re-share things they have experience with, which makes it hard to not find bubbles that way. Tags cross-cut, but you have to know to look for them. But twitter uses hashtags for the same thing, as does mastodon, facebook, etc. And it's the same problem there.

People don't tag well right now either, but that's partially because people go combing through the tags to be confrontational which has turned more than a few people I know away from tagging in general