andrewelmore

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@andrewelmore

game dev: designer/composer

visual (+ui/ux) designer
& composer of video games
— Seattle, WA —
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(Prev: studio visual designer @ bungie)
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JhoiraArtificer
@JhoiraArtificer

how to find new people on cohost

treat it like meeting new people offline.

  • go to interest-based meetups (:eggbug:: tag search) (bonus: you can't get covid from tag search, unlike physical meetups)
  • get your friends/acquaintances to introduce you to new people (:eggbug:: reblogs)

comment on interesting posts to strike up a conversation! also, assume good faith until proven otherwise, we're mostly all trying our best over here. welcome! :host-joy:

Bigg
@Bigg

Advice I've Given In Private Multiple Times But Haven't Actually Made A Post About:

Be generous with your follows! Twitter has conditioned us to be extremely scrupulous about who we follow in order to keep our ever-flowing timelines somewhat manageable, but happily Cohost is a far slower-moving beast. (I know the timeline's popping right now with all the new arrivals, but things will settle down in a few days.) This is a great opportunity for you to follow people who might have a vaguely interesting hobby, or who wrote a neat essay, or who just seem nice (the welcome to cohost tag is great for this). Plus, if you enjoy the site and want more people to stick around, giving folks a follow is a great way to make them feel like they aren't just posting into the void.

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scatsmanul
@scatsmanul

Thanks for putting out stuff like this! I started using social media in the facebook era and only ever used twitter and tumblr to view "content" and posts from "famous people". Cohost is interesting because has a bunch of people I almost know from going to GDC and GWU stuff pre-pandemic, but I always just lurked in that twitter sphere. Maybe here I will actually become a poster and make connections!

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JhoiraArtificer
@JhoiraArtificer

You're so welcome! I think posting is pretty fun, especially because I have a "here is a shiny rock" philosophy about it. This is my personal account, and I treat it as my place to store the cool things I find that other people might (or might not! whatever!) also like. Books I'm reading, a pretty leaf, ramblings about diatoms, reblogging art or essays or jokes from other people.

I like following other people (including what the internet might call "randos" aka non-famous non-'Content Creator' (barf, but that's its own essay) people) who also post about stuff they think is neat. It makes the internet feel real and collaborative and human.

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scatsmanul
@scatsmanul

Legit! That definitely seems like a good way to go about it.

Okay I just noticed your profile is a selkie, seals are one of my favorite thing lmao! I need to make seal posting happen on here.

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JhoiraArtificer
@JhoiraArtificer

Yeah! My recommendation would be to start tag searching specific games or genres you're interested in to see if you can find more that way. #2 works once you start following people from tags... see who they're reblogging and go from there!

If you're coming here from twitter, doing a search on "cohost" and filtering to accounts you follow can also help you find the cohosts of anyone you follow on there. I would assume you could probably do something similar on mastodon, but I can't personally vouch for that.

If you want a few recommendations I can also do that, though I can't promise they'd be super good for your personal interests.

Welcome to cohost! :host-joy:

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