I think I've made the comparison once before already, but Cohost really is starting to feel more and more like a friendly local pub as successive waves of users come on in.
There's the film critics and the labour organisers and the technically inclined - both physical and digitally so - alongside the furries and the terminally horny artists and the fantasy enthusiasts and wargamers and history buffs and CSS criminals. But the Venn diagram of each group doesn't feel like a hard circle as much as the squiggling knots of headphone shibari you pull out of your pocket. People are perfectly happy to mix and mingle and chat and share with one another, and there doesn't feel like there's been any particular shame or trepidation of, "Ooh, I can't share that from a furry account," or, "I hope this person won't mind me sharing from an obviously horny alt." Maaan, whatever. Everybody's just In On It and it's so surprisingly chill.
As well, I haven't seen yet a single rechost with added commentary that felt snide or dismissive, or that classic of the quote tweet, "I've chosen to deliberately misunderstand what you've tweeted and be as virulently contrary as possible." So far it's all had that sense of people just chatting naturally, and the occasional, "Oh, hey, that reminds me of-" or the related, "You know, you're on to something. I think it'd worth remembering-" and on it goes.
It's nice. I dig it.
