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# The Cohost Global Feed : unofficial "global timeline", people use this tag for posts they want people in general to see. There's also variations on it for horniness, gayness, political affiliation, dumbassery... let the suggested tags be your muse! Come up with new ones! Use the search feature!

# The Cohost Local Feed (wherever) look up your town or state or country and see if there's a "local" feed. Or start a new one if there isn't one yet

# Cohost meta for cohost posts about cohost, both how to do things in a technical sense (css, settings, userscripts, etc) and how we want to approach things in a cultural sense. Discourse about discourse, if you will.

# ask cohost questions and answers. Cohost just started to roll out an "asks" feature, so you may see those posts on this tag. But also, just people asking for recommendations or doing polls, etc.

# pets of cohost cute animals. Replace "pets" with "cats," "dogs," "birds," etc if you want specific cute pictures.

# (people) of cohost artists of cohost, writers of cohost, streamers of cohost... generally whatever you're interested in, people on cohost are doing it and tagging it with this format, the search feature is your friend.

# css crimes people having fun with inline css. Mostly silly and fun. Some impressive works of engineering in the name of shitposting.

# tag suggestions (thanks @graham !) a tag for tag suggestions

Ways to find more tags:

• Use the search feature with keywords on what you're interested in, tags are suggested in order of popularity.

• Also, when you find a post that you like, it will usually be tagged with multiple things, see which other ones look interesting and click on them.

• Follow people and see what tags they use. Follows are private and nobody will harass you for following some rando. Also you can unfollow and people won't be notified, so you can err on the side of following too many people and unfollow them later if you don't actually want them on your timeline.

When there's no algorithm, it takes time to build a feed that you enjoy, but the upside is that most things in your feed will be things you enjoy.

Have fun!

looks like there's another wave of new people

(although if this is a tumblr wave, they probably have a handle on tags already)

# The Cohost Global Feed : unofficial "global timeline", people use this tag for posts they want people in general to see. There's also variations on it for horniness, gayness, political affiliation, dumbassery... let the suggested tags be your muse! Come up with new ones! Use the search feature!

# The Cohost Local Feed (wherever) look up your town or state or country and see if there's a "local" feed. Or start a new one if there isn't one yet

# Cohost meta for cohost posts about cohost, both how to do things in a technical sense (css, settings, userscripts, etc) and how we want to approach things in a cultural sense. Discourse about discourse, if you will.

# ask cohost questions and answers. Cohost just started to roll out an "asks" feature, so you may see those posts on this tag. But also, just people asking for recommendations or doing polls, etc.

# pets of cohost cute animals. Replace "pets" with "cats," "dogs," "birds," etc if you want specific cute pictures.

# (people) of cohost artists of cohost, writers of cohost, streamers of cohost... generally whatever you're interested in, people on cohost are doing it and tagging it with this format, the search feature is your friend.

# css crimes people having fun with inline css. Mostly silly and fun. Some impressive works of engineering in the name of shitposting.

# tag suggestions (thanks @graham !) a tag for tag suggestions

Ways to find more tags:

• Use the search feature with keywords on what you're interested in, tags are suggested in order of popularity.

• Also, when you find a post that you like, it will usually be tagged with multiple things, see which other ones look interesting and click on them.

• Follow people and see what tags they use. Follows are private and nobody will harass you for following some rando. Also you can unfollow and people won't be notified, so you can err on the side of following too many people and unfollow them later if you don't actually want them on your timeline.

When there's no algorithm, it takes time to build a feed that you enjoy, but the upside is that most things in your feed will be things you enjoy.

Have fun!

Bringing this back for the new wave of users

# The Cohost Global Feed : unofficial "global timeline", people use this tag for posts they want people in general to see. There's also variations on it for horniness, gayness, political affiliation, dumbassery... let the suggested tags be your muse! Come up with new ones! Use the search feature!

# The Cohost Local Feed (wherever) look up your town or state or country and see if there's a "local" feed. Or start a new one if there isn't one yet

# Cohost meta for cohost posts about cohost, both how to do things in a technical sense (css, settings, userscripts, etc) and how we want to approach things in a cultural sense. Discourse about discourse, if you will.

# ask cohost questions and answers. Cohost just started to roll out an "asks" feature, so you may see those posts on this tag. But also, just people asking for recommendations or doing polls, etc.

# pets of cohost cute animals. Replace "pets" with "cats," "dogs," "birds," etc if you want specific cute pictures.

# (people) of cohost artists of cohost, writers of cohost, streamers of cohost... generally whatever you're interested in, people on cohost are doing it and tagging it with this format, the search feature is your friend.

# css crimes people having fun with inline css. Mostly silly and fun. Some impressive works of engineering in the name of shitposting.

# tag suggestions (thanks @graham !) a tag for tag suggestions

Ways to find more tags:

• Use the search feature with keywords on what you're interested in, tags are suggested in order of popularity.

• Also, when you find a post that you like, it will usually be tagged with multiple things, see which other ones look interesting and click on them.

• Follow people and see what tags they use. Follows are private and nobody will harass you for following some rando. Also you can unfollow and people won't be notified, so you can err on the side of following too many people and unfollow them later if you don't actually want them on your timeline.

When there's no algorithm, it takes time to build a feed that you enjoy, but the upside is that most things in your feed will be things you enjoy.

Have fun!

Studies¹ show that the number one complaint from new cohost users is not knowing how to find people. Here's some people you can follow:

@shel cool librarian, posts really thought-out essays and has a handy index pinned so you can check out her stuff

@lexi truly at the forefront of shitposting through sheer computer knowledge and willingness to test this website's technical capabilities

@jennschiffer created #microblogvember (and has the list of prompts pinned on her page, you should join! It's fun!) and therefore single-handedly made everyone else on this site a better poster

@publicdomaintreasures posts public domain images of weird little guys

@rowasc just, the chillest person. Expect garden pictures and posts about 3D printing

@atomicthumbs created #The Cohost Global Feed by accident. Also posts helpful tools for twitter refugees and thoughtful reflections on social media, in between the shitposts

@blackle incredible css criminal, makes really cool stuff and shares cool stuff other people have made, too

@TerraSabaea do you like pictures of mars and cool writeups about the geology of a whole different planet than the one we're posting from? Of course you do, go follow this space doctor

@fungi posts really striking sets of pictures, finding similar patterns on things that are unrelated to each other

@esoteric-eden horror writer and also made a word processor to help ADHD people focus??? And it works??? (it kind of adds stimulation instead of removing distractions)

@JhoiraArtificer posts about knitting and cool pictures of stuff. Also tends to share the best things

This list got too long and I am forgetting a bunch of people! Honestly, just follow everyone you even kind of like the vibes of and if you're not feeling it, you can unfollow later. Follower lists are not public so nobody will know or take it the wrong way.

Also if you like discovering new things about this website: @Co-host-Tips is a good account to follow. They post guides about cohost but also repost utilities made by users

1. Vibes