Hellscape Navigator

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.