I'm a Vtuber. I'm a furry. I like games, and just to be clear, this page is now 18+ because I have more than a few NSFW interests.
You can also find me here https://vtubers.me/Lizardguy
I don't know what to post here to get interaction, nor do I know how to get people over to this site.
I don't use any other social media because it's all either Facebook owned or full of the standard twitter user (You know, sub-animal scum), but I feel isolated and lonely here sometimes. Come on, be social. And I mean good social like say "Hey, how are ya" not Twitter Social or Mastodon Social.
It's definitely interesting to see how cohost, having been built as a sort of fortress against social media abuse tactics, also unavoidably chills other good-faith forms of communication. Tagging people to pull them into conversations, having private sidebars using direct messages, being able to search replies - these are all things that would make cohost more like the Public Square, but all of those are also vectors for bad actors.
Reading between the chosts, it seems like the actively social "friend groups" on the site aren't relying exclusively on cohost; they're also interacting somewhere else (Discord, Twitch, group texts, etc.) that provide more flexibility because access is more easily curated to keep out randos. Maybe that's just the way it's got to be, given the design goals of the site.
There are honestly easy ways to prevent bad actors that the folks at Twitter avoid because of lazyness and bad business more than anything.
Just moderate. It's not hard, have a list of reports in one safe place and have a team of human moderators look through and resolve each one.
