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Trying to find a replacement for when tumblr collapses like a burning barn

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I'm a Wannabe Author, Mediocre Gamer, and Full-Time Hater


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8ms
@8ms

I think my issues with this site primarily boils down to the fact it is at odds with itself at almost all points.

If cohost wants to be a social media site, why the absence of any means of actually socializing? I can't disagree with the desire to minimize clout chasing, but I Don't Know Who The Fuck is interacting with this or any other post. If traditional social media is akin to a town square for groups of people to converse, cohost is a large library where we silently write our discussions on paper, hand it to a peer, who potentially photocopies it and passes it on. I am not aware of, much less able to talk to, whomever the 3rd or 4th person in the chain rechoding my post is.

If cohost wants to be private blog platform1, where me and my small cohort of immediate friends can journal our thoughts or whatever, then why the presence of any social features, however limited? I don't feel like I'm putting my personal thoughts on a page for me and my friends to reflect on, I feel like I'm spilling my guts to my friends, my future self, and an unknowable number of uncaring eyes depending on whoever presses the share button.

I understand that the dev team is very limited, and certain things like a much-needed overhaul to the notification system or messaging isn't doable overnight, but can I at least have a number that tallies a number of followers? An icon showing who my mutuals are? I'm yelling into the void here, but in the knowledge the void is arguably listening.


  1. which I am not fundamentally opposed to, though I could set up my own website for that.


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in reply to @8ms's post:

commenting on posts and sending people asks who have their askbox open are really good ways of socializing on here! imo. and in your settings you can "show new notification count in the sidebar", and going there will show who is liking and reblogging and commenting on your posts. it took some getting used to for me personally so i understand the whiplash coming from tumblr

it feels like it wants to position itself halfway between tumblr/twitter style social media and traditional blogs/substack and i think it loses out in both directions, like a dashboard system promotes a shorter style of post but the means of interacting with it being constrained to comments and additions apply a layer of added intention necessary for engaging with a post that lends itself to longer more developed posting, and things like no real private communication further that tension in the site's design

i think people literally just want Tumblr But Less Shit, and i wish cohost would deliver on that. like dont..... moderate like tumblr does, stick with the "no algorithms, chronological only" approach to dashboard, and other than that..... fuckin copy away when it comes to tumblr