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gay ass artist and programmer, i guess. 23. works on botania, the minecraft mod. also into weird functional programming stuff. talk to me about monads (or applicatives if you're even cooler)


nex3
@nex3

These are all nice things to do rather than things to avoid. I'm sure you can figure out how not to be a dick to other people. But there are some things we've all learned from other social media sites that are worth rethinking here:

  • Write comments, even if you don't have anything to say! Just saying "so true bestie" or "wow great art" will make the original poster feel great. The relatively low profile of likes on Cohost makes comments even more valuable, and unlike Twitter, this won't clog up anyone's timeline.

  • Tag your posts, especially if you're referring to a particular game/tv show/franchise, something that's a common phobia like spiders or mushrooms, or something that can be addictive like drugs. You don't need to add a full content warning most of the time since Cohost has the ability to muffle specific tags. (Yes this will make you more publicly visible, but Cohost has actual human moderation if people start being assholes.)

  • Rehost porn! I made a whole post about this a few months ago, but the high level summary is because Cohost requires rigorous adult content tags and has good filters there's no downside to reblogging adult content (beyond the mortifying ordeal of being known).

  • Post what interests you. I think people are constantly rediscovering this on their own, but it's worth a reminder: Cohost is a great place for long posts about whatever catches your fancy. There's a sense that this is a place for computer nerds or whatever, but that's just because that's something a bunch of the people who joined early like writting mini-essays about. I've seen great longposts here about ancient Rome, color theory, and hentai just in the last few days and everyone seems to love them.


ireneista
@ireneista

we're far happier about "what to do" than "what not to do" in general

although even there, we would get really angry if we saw someone going around being like "you posted something that didn't interest you! you're breaking the rules!"

these aren't rules they are more in the nature of good ideas to borrow when you can <3


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in reply to @nex3's post:

one i'd like to add is: threads are the opposite of twitter

on twitter threads will hide the middle posts, condensing it, while here threads will repeat the early posts, expanding it, but you see people using threads as if they will condense still

You've motivated me to leave 4 comments in the last 15 minutes. Excellent advice there.

And of course I agree with "post what interests you", since that's my own philosophy in writing on cohost. I'd also emphasize the point that you don't need to be consistent in what you write about, you can write about topic X one day and write about totally different topic Y the next. It's the total opposite of other sites (looking at you, LinkedIn) where you're expected to build a "personal brand" by being a expert in some specific narrow field.