- artists (esp adult artists) setting up either RSS feeds or mailing lists (less ideal but still open at least)
- everyone setting up a website to have a links page of their friends' sites and other places on the web they like
- start a blog just for pictures of your cats. or something spiritually similar, at least. dont let closed social media monopolize cute animal pictures!!!
- less organizing on discord, more organizing groups in person
- honestly just try to spend less time online in general. i think a lot of people learned they wanted to do that because of cohost, and i hope we don't all end up sliding back now
- go to websdr.org, google and explore some radio repeaters near you. listen in. maybe study for a license and start transmitting! i think ham radio is underappreciated as social media, and the more weirdos and queers and anarchists and communists pick it up, the cooler we can make it
- everyone to be more vulnerable to others. take more risks. be a dork around your coworkers. host events at your home. send a text to a friend you haven't talked to in a year (or years!) asking to catch up. start things that might end up failing but teaching you a lot along the way. ask someone if they need help.
- try to assume that everyone is operating in good faith until they give you a definitive reason to believe otherwise. i think that's part of what made this site really good.
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Ham radio is an awesome idea! There isn't even too much in the way of getting a license -- I just drilled flashcards on hamstudy.org for a week, then had to wait another week for the next test in my area. Unfortunately I'm extraordinarily shy and only ever eavesdropped on the noon net in my area before i moved away 😅 but it's a very good idea and I really need to get back into it.
honestly, same lol. mic fright is very real! that’s part of why i want ppl to organize more stuff in person (safely)— i have a much easier time getting over that shyness if i have an opportunity to meet ppl before putting myself out there. but it’s a good reminder that i should try it!!
Mic fright is a real thing, almost every active ham has experienced it. You’ve got to find a way to overcome it! Because it goes away with practice. Two things helped me: checking into a local “roll call” net where the de-facto script told me what to say. And doing the ARRL VHF contest using a handheld, where again there’s a prescribed short exchange. The people seriously playing the contest want to get contacts, they want to get you in the log, so they’ll usually make an effort to work you even if your signal is poor. And then move on to the next person.
I got a license study book after seeing people here talk about maybe hanging out at the field day last year. I never took the test for similar reasons of shyness, but I still think the cohost radio network would be the coolest part. eggbug over SSTV...
Doo iit! You can sit around doing nothing with your license after you get it :3
less organizing on discord, more organizing groups in person
preach. also the bit about good faith, also super important imo
In my experience existing more in physical spaces and not spending so much time online is contradictory with wanting to be more vulnerable and opening up more.
i think that’s true for a lot of very online people, certainly for me. it’s been an ongoing and deliberate practice to try and bring the same kind of vulnerability i have online into the physical spaces, and for me it’s been very valuable.
i think online provides a particular kind of armor that we can use to choose what parts we want to be vulnerable; what id love to see is people reaching out, even if just a little, and trying to let new parts of ourselves to be vulnerable. it won’t always work, it’ll hurt at times, and i don’t think anyone should do more than they feel able. but if you can, little by little, i think it helps bridge gaps and makes the world a little better for yourself.
if you have a tumblr, its built into your blog; i think wordpress is probably similar (or at least has a plugin); also ghost and stuff.
for self-hosted, i'm not totally sure. i set mine up with this, but i'm not sure how viable long-term it is (esp since afaik its just one guy's project): https://journal.miso.town/
there's also a tutorial at the end of the thread here, which is slightly more involved but still pretty simple and probably better in the long term: https://cohost.org/M00se0nTheLoose/post/7622759-i-ll-post-what-i-hav
hmmm!! Well luckily I use Tumblr as much as anything. I may set it up for my website eventually because that would be neato
a lot of mailing list services also have similar functionality, since RSS is really similar to setting one of those up! this is also a GREAT time to ask for advice on cohost broader, bc ppl more knowledgeable with tech than me are champing at the bit to help ppl out with this, haha
For anyone thinking of making a website I think Neocities is pretty good for something simple, it does require some HTML knowledge and stuff.
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