Malusdraco

re-entering my dragon era

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Malus || 27 || genderqueer aro-ace

should probably put more here but i'm a white ass IT professional and artist as a hobby. very opinionated but working on being less rude


Toyhouse (most art)
toyhou.se/Malusdraco
Ko-fi (digital sketchbooks, commissions and more)
ko-fi.com/malusdraco
Neocities (not super active)
witches-garden.neocities.org/
Dreamwidth (new home?)
malusdraco.dreamwidth.org/
Letterboxd (for the freaks)
letterboxd.com/malusdraco/

still just thinking about how the first Big Discourse on cohost being "accessibility" is such a telling mixture of the egocentrism of tumblr and the self-righteous viciousness of twitter. it's as if in our flight from those respective communities we forgot WHY they were terrible

it's important to recognize earnestness and to separate what is collective responsibility from what is individual responsibility. it's important to know that in terms of web development that accessibility needs are often conflicting, which isn't a condemnation of either party. it is important to know that 9 times out of 10, fighting to be "right" is very much worse than not engaging.

can we try to be decent to each other? please?


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This isn't even close to the first big discourse. Which I only bring up because the fact that I see someone post "this is Cohost's first big discourse" every time there's yet another one shows how much a lot of these big blow ups are centralized to one particular sphere of the site, which is why the endless streams of vague posting always cause so much drama in the first place: many users never saw the original thing people were vague posting about in the first place, but the people doing it are posting like everyone knows what they're talking about.

(I hope this is a halfway coherent thought but I both see every big discourse called the first AND see people posting "wow it's great cohost is a website where there's no main character" every time, and it really shows something about how localized the spread of any given post is that many people never see these things)

god sorry i only saw this notification today!! this is a fascinating observation- can you summarize any of the previous "big discourse" moments? it's possible someone was vagueposting and i didn't even realize shit was going down. not super distinct from "shit was going down and i had no idea" but still i wonder how out of the loop i am comparatively

this is something study-able you know? when interaction-based algorithm doesn't play into what people see, how much does information spread

The things I can remember most are the two separate lolicon content policy discourses (mostly happened in the replies of staff posts), the debates over a post telling bigots to kill themselves, several debates over Numbers On Websites...there was one over Cheets which was a bit more brief but also very recent. Those are a few off the top of my head. There's probably a lot that I also have no clue about, this is just what I've seen from following staff posts and a few tags like #cohost meta, #cohost, etc.

See i feel like i've seen smaller arguments re: at least lolicon policy and website numbers but nothing that's hit as big a handful of the people i follow as the accessibility one- probably says more about my sample than about cohost as a whole.

you're brave following the meta tag lol- though i guess you've got a really good idea of what people are talking about!

I've been fascinated with like...following the growth of new social media platforms and communities since way before cohost existed so I'm always going to be following meta conversations where I can on any site lol. A lot of it of course ends up being Drama but part of understanding a community is understanding how it navigates that kind of thing so...it is what it is.

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