CERESUltra

Music Nerd, Author, Yote!

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30s/white/tired/coyote/&
Words are my favorite stim toy


ShareAnecdotes
@ShareAnecdotes

people who aren't on cohost like to say things such as ":/ why would i wanna go there. it doesn't look good"

friends. readers.

i love having a block function that works


RobinProblem
@RobinProblem
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jaidamack
@jaidamack

More than anything? It's the quality of the interactions here. I wish I were a little better at responding to comments, but I think part of that is the ingrained 'just hit Like' reaction. Nobody gives two shits who you are, what your icon is, or what your general deal is as long as the post is good and the vibe is right.

The mood here feels more 'chill house party with polite strangers' than 'washing machine full of billiard balls' like certain sites where the most abjectly psychotic nonsense floats to the top. I dig it.

Tagging things and going, "Hey! I make cool stuff!" is awesome. I have found so many cool photographers out there that I'd have been anxious about interacting with or even following on other sites - I didn't even know I found photography all that interesting! But check it out. Cohost makes it visible, lets you drift, and doesn't make a big deal out of who you're watching, who you're talking to, what you're liking.

It's the genuine, earnest passion here that strikes me. People just love what they're putting on Cohost and I can dig that rather than laser-targeted shitposts.

...though I will still absolutely shitpost because that's my sense of humour.


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i am glad that you are all having a good experience with the situation, but it is clear that this set of decision strongly favors some types of people over others

  • people who do not post often have very little chance to be seen, while people who post dozens of times per day flood out chronological timelines and tags
  • people who do not post visual media are much easier to miss than people who focus on writing and text
  • people who do not already have pre-existing or external sources of discovery (such as youtube channels or had formerly big twitter followings etc) are massively disadvantaged

tagging stuff stresses me out, i am not sure how it is supposed to work and it is a system that i am having to learn, i have had a tumblr account for a very long time but tags were never easy to me and i pretty much stopped using it even before the yahoo acquisition

i was on deviantart in the early days and when it started it was actually accessible to writers, and that was all my friends there, but over the years it became focused on visual art and it became impossible to find any writers or be found yourself and all those fun interactions went away and most of the writers left for tumbler or ao3 or fanfiction.net or simply quit all together

again i am truly glad for cohost (including a working block feature) and that for some people are feeling more free here and the general lack of toxicity is huge, but i am also not going to pretend like it cannot be improved for others either