I don’t like the anti-numbers stance on this website. It feels very much like YouTube taking away the dislike button “for our own good.” Like, noooooo!!!! I want transparency. I wanna see, in simple numerics, how many friends enjoyed my post. But I can’t do that, here, so my brain assumes it’s zero and everybody secretly hates me. I’m so anxious, and it’s so lonely and scary, here. ☹️
G O O D N I G H T
- Don’t Care; Accustomed to He/Him
- netscapenavigator-official.tumblr.com/
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I came back to Cohost with 7 new notifications. So, just in case you all didn’t know, I’m basically a global A-lister, now.
As much potential as I think Cohost could have, it really does feel like I’m screaming into the void, here. More so than on Tumblr. Tumblr struck this balance between anonymous online and building an identity you can use to build social circles. In sites like Twitter or Mastodon there’s this unspoken pressure to be your irl self, and to be this perfect version of it, or else you won’t be able to build a social circle. Meanwhile, here, there’s no pressure to do that, but the extreme anti-algorithm stance of this site makes it hard to build social circles by making everything too anonymous. Discovering new people and content to follow is hard on these websites that pride themselves on not having algorithms. Algorithms add this chaos card, a true randomness to discovery that keeps your experience diverse without having to try. The same just can’t be said for places like this and Mastodon, so it’s no wonder people are running to Threads and BlueSky.
Ooh hoooo. I haven't used HTML and Markdown in years. This place is fun.