i do still wish Cohost had a Global Feed so i could see good posts from outside my circle. as-is unless someone knows someone else already or has some other kind of Following they can advertise to, they're pretty much invisible on here
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in reply to @atomicthumbs's post:
I realized recently that making new pages can be just as much about what content you're putting out as what content you're bringing in.
Besides the (albeit large) amount of energy to follow a ton of people outside your bubble and the (pretty small) amount of energy to switch to that profile when you're seeking more content, there doesn't seem to me like there's much of an obstacle to get that more-global feed
Sorry about that! Lemme try again: I follow a bunch of people on this page (@graham), and then a completely different set of mostly artists on another page I own (@graham-illustrations). When I want to see art, I can just go look at that timeline. I think this is kind of like how you could make a page like @atomicthumbs-global and just follow every account you see until you got a little bit beyond your current circle. That said, I get that it might be more work than you'd want to get all that set up nicely
yeah we're definitely considering something like this (not necessarily a global feed, but some way to see a random selection of posts you wouldn't see otherwise), we want to make sure we're doing it in some way that doesn't make posting feel too panopticon-y though
\bad_idea_dog{global feed}{only shows chosts from pages with zero followers}
there should just straight up be a button you press to Expose This Post To Mortifying Ordeal Of Being Known
yeah, I feel like a button you can push that says "I'm fine with this being seen by Whoever" is a decent compromise
right now, there's nothing stopping us from all tagging all our posts with #panoptipost or something to build a site-wide "global feed" before anything actually gets implemented. The power is in our hands 
this is what tags are for, but i mean i personally forget to tag things + never look at tags so i can't in good faith tell other people to do it lmao
i've occasionally been using tags to find new people but it's imperfect yeah