welcome
to the coast of post
I am not myself new to cohost, rather I am using this tag to say hello to those who are. Did you know we have CSS formatting that lets you make your posts look pretty much however you want? If you don't know how to use it, or only know a little, then I heartily recommend Eevee's extensive tutorials right here on cohost:
part 1 ⚪️
part 2 ⚪️
part 3 ⚪️
part 4
Cohost also supports standard markdown for much simpler everyday formatting. You can theoretically mix HTML/CSS and markdown in the same post, but you may get weird results.
The only way to make a post searchable is through tags, there is no whole-post-contents search. Therefore tag liberally if you want interested people to be able to find it. When tagging, don't type out a leading # yourself, or you'll end up with something ##embarrassing. A common point of confusion: as an anti-abuse measure, if you append your own tags under someone else's post, this will not appear in global search, only in search on your own profile. You can muffle tags that describe stuff you generally don't want to see.
Cohost supports content warnings separate from tags. The culture here is not super strict about using them for every conceivable little thing, but a little consideration is appreciated. (And keep in mind: the more thoroughly you tag things, the better tag muffles work for others, without having to slap a content warning clickthrough on everything.)
If you find the animated effects some people do with CSS annoying, look into how to turn on your operating system's or browser's "reduce animation" accessibility setting. This will tone most of them down. You can also try muffling the tags you see on these posts such as "css crimes".
You can attach music to a post like you'd attach images (only one or the other per post, I believe). There's currently no way to attach movies other than gifs but if the first line of your post is a an embeddable URL (such as a youtube URL) it should embed nicely.
Here are some tags I found, I hope you like them:
css crimes ⚪️
eggbug ⚪️
grand vizier chat (secret)
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love honk
As for me, it's pronounced "a bad idea", I am allegedly some kind of professional hacker, but on cohost I mostly post about my gay teen god adventures.
And finally: if you are financially independent and a newly minted eggbug enjoyer, please consider going to your account settings and enabling cohost plus for $5 a month or $50 a year. It really contributes to making this site, which is run by a very small team with a dream, sustainable.