britown

Creative-Type Impersonator

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I sometimes like working on never-to-be-finished video game projects


Right now I'm making a game called Chronicles.


Wanna make a game? Here is a list of great C++ libraries to use.


I maintain a Letterboxd in much the way that I assume people maintain bonsai trees.


This is Owen:
Owen
And this is Molly:
Molly
Furthermore, this is Max:
Molly

dante
@dante

the thing about being in a public space is that you are in a public space.

one of the advantages of online public spaces is that you can usually block and/or silence people, which is a physical impossibility in non-online spaces. that's pretty neat! but it doesn't get around the fact that you are in a public space. people will do things that you often do not like in a public space.

cohost is a public space. you should act, react, and protect yourself accordingly. this is not "a community" and I sure as hell hope you, reader, never think it is


britown
@britown

A really big advantage to Cohost that was bandied about by people (myself included) excited to get going around here was "now I can post what I want without worrying about some weirdo coming after me."

The reality is that everyone's a weirdo and everyone has different takes and feels various levels of audacity from the above toward expressing their weirdo takes.

Cultural and structural work here puts everyone at very low to minimum risk of being harassed by your textbook villains.

That doesn't mean that everyone's your friend or agrees with you or is responsible for holding any benefit of the doubt. You're not protected from someone paragliding into your replies to weaponize the worst faith interpretations of your post into their own agenda.

Cohost is a cool space that I like a lot but everyone's allowed to be weirdos here. When you make a loud public broadcast, it's not that shocking I guess that someone who you didn't expect or intend to hear it might respond rudely.


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in reply to @dante's post:

I remember when there was this idea of the Tumblr "community" -- that everyone was together in being into like, superwholock and homestuck and whatever. (Remember Dashcon?) It was was always a specious proposition, and even ostensible subcommunities like "anime twitter" or whatever are more like loosely associated clusters at best and more often just a constant deluge of opinion with little coherence

Went through this with Reddit once upon a time, I assume (it's been 10+ years) that people around there don't treat each other as part of some enormous secret club anymore but there was a real "if you're here you're one of us" attitude of that place that was intoxicating to new members until you saw it from a distance.