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Vertxsees @Vertxsees2/16/2023, 4:41 PM

full-quack webbed developer @Webster

Lotte 'just an idiot' May @LotteMakesStuff2/16/2023, 10:56 AM

ive seen people complain "wahhh cohost sucks because you cant go viral wahhh"- friend, have you tried posting about the eggbug doing crimes?

everyone loves it when the eggbug does a victimless white collar crime or two

#The Cohost Global Feed #eggbug

jae @jkap2/16/2023, 2:50 PM

i assume that anyone who wants to go viral never has because i can't comprehend the mindset of going through that and still wanting it

it's not fun. it's marginally better here but it's still not fun.

last time i went Truly Viral (sailor moon hotline pre-shutdown) it cost me nearly $2k over the course of a month. you don't want this.

full-quack webbed developer @Webster2/16/2023, 3:30 PM

having a viral tweet is a lot of fun if you love receiving five notifications a second, being purposefully misunderstood by reactionaries, feeling like you're under constant surveillance for 36 hours, being followed by droves of normies who will be unfollowing a day later because they were uncomfortable with the niche adult content you usually engage with, and having your words reposted to 4chan for mockery and published by the daily dot for praise without your consent!

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in reply to @LotteMakesStuff's post:

Natalie @nex32/16/2023, 12:09 PM

just unfathomable to me that A) going viral is at all desirable for anyone other than artists who need views to survive and B) people think the injection of posts you didn't ask for into your timeline is in any way a good thing

@flintlock-media2/16/2023, 12:59 PM

Seconding, I am totally baffled. It sounds like someone saying "I'm addicted to the dopamine hits you get from predatory social media platforms and I like it that way actually". If that's the case, I can see why they wouldn't like cohost.

so long, and thanks for all the fish @fluffy-shenanigans2/16/2023, 7:05 PM

100% this; as soon as I realized that "going viral" means inviting the attention of everyone (including haters and bigots) then I stopped wanting to go viral

I've had like two moderately "successful" posts on cohost, and each time, it was honestly relieving to know that I was the only one who knew exactly how much attention my post was getting and that my personal worth online wouldn't be irrevocably attached to the concept of "notes" on it. the lack of numbers here is so freeing; having my notifications blow up here doesn't come with the tidal wave of anxiety that it always did on twitter.

Blit @blit2/16/2023, 2:54 PM

cannot wait for more eggbug crime to grace my feed.

Jim Stormdancer @mogwai-poet2/16/2023, 9:03 PM

I've got a post that gets dozens of notifications a day because people are holding court by turning it into a huge reshare thread and wahhh Cohost sucks because there's no mute thread button

Lotte 'just an idiot' May @LotteMakesStuff2/16/2023, 9:32 PM

its on the list apparently, soon i hope

eggbug enthusiast @aidan2/16/2023, 10:10 PM

hahahahah fair and yeah notif filtering/post muting/things of that nature are pretty high on the prio list. as usual, can't promise timelines but it's Comin

Jim Stormdancer @mogwai-poet2/16/2023, 10:38 PM

Great to hear!

in reply to @jkap's post:

Kay @kaybee2/16/2023, 3:13 PM

I’m sorry for however much I contributed to your Twilio bill 😔 please garnish my Cohost+ sub accordingly

squircular reasoning @spiders2/16/2023, 3:50 PM

even when one of our posts is just mildly popular, getting like a dozen or so rebugs, it tends to be overwhelming and way too much. one time we had a post on the bird site start to "do numbers" and we literally deleted the post once it started getting too popular because we didn't want to deal with that

Sir5000 @Sir2/16/2023, 7:41 PM

if you play your cards right, Eggbug gets printed in a small local Mexican newspaper

MarMar @SputnikGagarin2/17/2023, 2:41 PM

Wait. You did the Sailor Moon Hotline? Sorry about the bill but that shit really brightened some really bad mental days. So thank you.

jae @jkap2/17/2023, 2:45 PM

oh trust me the cost wasn't just one person. pricing was $0.0085 per minute. the problem is that overall people were listening to around 6 months of sailor moon every month, which it turns out adds up!