increasingly realising that the reason I like cohost is because I basically disengaged from public social media in 2016 when I stopped using tumblr (and it was a very different site then) and switched over to a locked twitter account which I used solely to interact with people I already knew and people they knew. cohost is my first toe dipped back into interacting with new people online in a long time, so the fact that it's "quiet" (I take that with a grain of salt, because I personally do not find it quiet) suits me just fine.
eta: it seems a lot of the problems some users are having really boil down to "I have forgotten what the original purpose of tags was", and you can't blame any individual person for that per se, but it really just strikes me so odd. like... yeah, there were no posts on my timeline when I joined cohost either. I looked at some tags to find people to follow. then I followed people they followed. it used to be like this on tumblr too?
eta 2: you know what else is kinda cool is that with no follower metrics I don't have to feel bad about UNfollowing people, which I always sort of did on tumblr or twitter. sometimes our interests have diverged, it doesn't have to be personal - but when you have The Anxiety you are always worried people will take it the wrong way. no such risk here. amazing!
