it's really not! I keep seeing people say this but it really does reveal how reliant people have grown on the way that modern social media has turned into a hose that just blasts you in the face with #Hashtag #Content? like if you want to find people to follow on here, you gotta do it like you used to have to do it
specifically, you need to seek out things that interest you. if you already follow like one or two active accounts though? you're already kinda set because cohost, much like tumblr, exists in a way where sharing things others have posted. those one or two people are probably sharing stuff they've seen, that they're interested in, and you can start looking at those accounts
there's also the tag search? like if you're interested in art or music or whatever, #my art and #my music and similar are things. admittedly, this is a bit of a pain point because it's not like you're going to know this when you first show up. it actually would be pretty good if cohost had a bit of an onboarding process that could explain this? not one of those extremely obnoxious "hey loser click through these like fifty things that'll let you finally use the site" ones, but maybe like... I dunno, a little guide that new users can click into that shows up in the notifications? something easy to dismiss
but this idea that cohost is some impenetrable wall that completely inhibits discoverability is so fucking weird and maybe it's because I'm the World's Oldest Child but this is just how social media and, yeah, the whole-ass internet used to be! you used to have to actually look for things to help you curate your experience online!
more specifically, maybe more importantly, you had to be an active participant. the internet really shouldn't just be a passive experience if you want to enjoy yourself. if you want things thrown in your lap, cohost probably isn't the place for you, but that also speaks to a deeper issue with what the internet has become and what expectations it's set up. like this is starting to feel like a boomer-ass take, but maybe the way the modern internet encourages passively just consume content is... bad?
I dunno, I think I've lost the thread here
if you want to find stuff on cohost, take an active role in that
I would seriously argue that users passively consuming content as opposed to actively deciding what people and subjects they do and do not want to follow and participate with is a decent factor in a fair chunk of the problems with the modern internet as a whole
There’s no “perfect” tag to post in to get your art or writing or whatever looked at. The people who seek out art like yours are at least going to be slightly more engaged than the usual fan because instead of being blasted in the face with RTs or whatever they’re looking.
Like, there's no perfect tag, but also if you're posting specifically to engage people you gotta' sometimes step back and take a look at what type of intellectual product the people you want to like you actually engage with.
Like, stream announcements with tags don't get shared NEARLY as much as me saying "say 'which ones' to drugs" with absolutely NO tags.
Drawings of cool robots don't do NEARLY as well as pretty girl furries. And that's Fine!
sometimes you have a new cool idea that can only live in a vacuum but only posting about it ain't gonna' get people to suddenly become interested in it. Sometimes you gotta' post about The Gunch and how he hates his festive neighbor Crimbolas. Then they get into a disagreement at the local Waldor's because they're trying to hide that they're buying each other Jenkus gifts and then later they kiss at their neighbor Bettily Loo Boo's neighborhood party because they didn't really know how one another felt and that's the true meaning of Jenkus. And then sometimes people will extrapolate on having bigger hearts by clicking the follow button for more updates on The Gunch and Crimbolas' relationship.