trying a new thing where i say out loud to myself "oh, wow, that person needs to relax" when i see inconsequential scorchingly stupid takes phrased argumentatively instead of even rising to the bait of putting it into words to complain abt on a locked twitter. no progress to report so far. but one day i will fix my entire brain & heart in this manner until i don't even care when people are really wrong like just incredibly wrong about stuff that doesn't matter even when they're really wrong about it. one day? i will be the relaxed one actually & i will be so relaxed i won't even notice when other people have to relax
On the one hand, I really like how Cohost doesn't seem to have the sort of compulsive vitriol that defines Twitter: the dunking, the call-outs, the construing of these as good, the feeling of having to perform a public good by doing either of those even when it's not clear that it actually accomplishes much beyond boosting the site's metrics. Whether Cohost's culture is a product of good moderation or of de-emphasizing the need for engagement that produces these things, I'm not entirely sure. But on the other hand, a part of me does wonder what kind of amazing snapbacks we could come up with using inline CSS. Imagine reblogging somebody's lengthy poorly thought-out screed just so you could slap a dancing Mr. Gus on top of it and tell them, "Get Gus'd, idiot."
