my biggest regret about using cohost is that i took a very long time to actually make a personal account that allowed me to be what i want to believe is myself, as opposed to just posting on @strange-thrifting for about an extra 10 months or so and immediately pigeon-holing myself
but at the time i didn't know if cohost was actually better than twitter or not cause i haven't used social media prior to this since 2019 cause that shit completely consumed me mentally. so i was... hesitant to do anything more than just share a thrifting post and do nothing else, never share it anywhere, and talk to nobody, which was a shit solution for socially isolating myself completely for almost 3 years from course correcting right back into a different ditch
i've since come to, while recognizing that old habits die hard (just because i have the notification number turn off doesn't stop the dopamine from seeing the orange oval, even though i never did a several ever), realize that cohost was the most helpful thing for me trying to helpfully re-integrate myself to a social internet space again, and i really wish i had taken a chance earlier, to realize 10 months sooner that i liked writing critically about video games (while also posting thrift finds and thought-dumping when high off my ass) and finding like-minded people somewhat organically
my second and third biggest regrets are not following more people i saw over and over and over and over shared onto my dashboard, and not ordering the eggbug plush
i truly wish i will be able to successfully keep up with even a fraction of people on here, even if infrequently, that i've interacted with