i think it’s cool how many different people are on this website. there is, i think, a perception that cohost has a monoculture of sorts. i don’t think this has ever been true, but looking at the Active Userbase now, i absolutely don’t think it’s true now.
making and operating a social media website is exhausting and difficult, but it is worth it to see how people use and like cohost. here’s hoping it stays that way.
the closest cohost ever came to having a monoculture was february 3 - june 28 when there were only 150 or so people on the platform. as soon as you break even 1k users that stops being true.
Pending how broad your definition of monoculture is, and how you constructed your feed "queer nerd" could fit.
the fact that there was even an attempt to make something like this is just amazing in the state of today's corporate internet 👍
i really hope that this and neocities is the start of people starting to reclaim the internet from corporations and using it for its actual purpose.
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I don't think there was ever a monoculture here, however this website has attracted a large proportion of nerdy and creative people. Others see the CSS Crimes and miscellaneous cool shit people are chosting and get the impression that everyone on the platform must be like that when that's not at all true.
from my little PoV, it's moving like units of a computer/tech-savvy monoculture engaging in various interests. the experience gets rather quiet, if not lonely, if we're not engaging with tags and things outside of our following spaces.
i can tell there isnt a monoculture here because the other day when everyone was arguing about the jpeg thing id see comments like 'damn, we haven't had discourse this big since the yoinky sploinky incident or the bibibo bowlball' and i had no idea what the fuck they were referring to
When I first got in here (whenever that was), cohost did seem a bit limited in what was going on. However, I found that was only because I hadn't spent enough time looking at different tags and accounts. Once one really begins to poke around here, the diversity of content is amazing for such a young platform. Most of all, it seems cohost is doing better than most at not only attracting new users but ones that are actually participating (unlike other places where so many accounts have a default avatar and no posts).
unlike other places where so many accounts have a default avatar and no posts
You just haven't tried to claim a username before. I don't know why, but we've run into something like 5 or 10 accounts that are just username snipes with no avatar and no posts
Couple examples: @vulpix, @kuro
They're not even private, they're just blank.
We love it!! We mostly don't use our laptop so it can be a little hard for us to use, but we love the site nonetheless.
It's not as overwhelming as the birdsite and has tagging functions similar to that of the original hellsite, making it the site we would use primarily if we could just convince ourselves to start using our dusty old laptop again. :D
Basically: yes. Agreed. We find stuff on here we feel like would be lost otherwise and we love it. We have a few friends who follow us here and we can expand our net as wide or narrow as we would like, no problems. Monoculture is like...the opposite of that, right?
