Thinking about the way social media communities mangle the concept of "accountability", because a key feature of social landscapes like Twitter and Tumblr is that there's no clear sense of borders or localization to provide a definite sense of who's "in the community" and who's "not in the community". This is, in many cases, a strength, but it also enables a really toxic dynamic where you take the concept of accountability, formerly understood to mean paying your dues to the people you're directly in community with, and spread that definition of "community" to include potentially the entire internet, you end up with a state of affairs where a person can be accused of "failing accountability" if one person is uncomfortable with them. Even if that's a person they've never met.
"cohost has this community" or "cohost is for this kind of person".
because a lot of the time the things they're saying don't match at all with my experience of cohost. cohost isn't like some sites where there are popular things that everyone is guaranteed to see.
there's no front page. you create your experience of cohost with who you choose to follow. that doesn't mean the content you personally see on here is the only kind.
i don't think cohost is exclusively for elder millennial furries from the pacific northwest, or whatever other group people who say it's for. i mean, i'm not in any of those groups. i know a ton of people on here who aren't in those groups. if that's what cohost looks like to you, that's cuz it's who you're following.
cohost is not just for shitposting, or for game dev logs, or for furry porn, or for speedrunners. it's for all of those and none of those.
my sibling in christ: you made the cohost
POST ABOUT IT YOURSELF!!!
maybe the community of people with that interest isn't here just yet. but you are! and nothing is going to entice people to post about something quite like seeing someone else doing the exact same thing. you know how good it feels to be the second person to ever use a tag? i feel so connected to every stranger whose tag i've been one of the first other people to use
something i don't think a lot of people consider is that a great way to get other people interested in something is for you to be openly passionate about it. talk about it. talk about why you love it. hell, i wouldn't have gotten into wrestling if it weren't for all the weirdos on twitter talking about it when i was just trying to talk about shitass 90s games. i saw people talking about it, thought "huh, if these people i like are into this, there's gotta be something here" and, well, now i'm doing the same shit they did but on cohost
i can count the number of people i see on here regularly posting about wrestling on one hand. two on a good week. three if i had another hand and it was an even gooder week. part of the reason why i post about it so much here is specifically that i don't want people to come here, see very little in the way of posts about wrestling, come to the conclusion of "oh i guess The Cohost Community doesn't like this" and never really try to engage with it ever again. that line of thinking is what drives people back to bigger sites
there's no denying cohost is small, which leads to niche topics not getting the kind of attention it might get on the more well-established sites. but that doesn't change without you, someone who is already here, starting or participating in that community
also: tag your shit