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all screenshots stolen from @SaneFurryStrug on twitter lol

if it's produced by a corporation, it's content. if it's produced by a small business/team or an individual, it's art.

marvel movies: content
the most recent hentai game you played: art

this is the fastest i've gone from joke post to "hmm no actually that's right"

working on some drafts for a tir qou sona :3 rlly happy with all of these so far!

I saw two (2) posts about mastodon ppl or somethin complaining about cohosts architecture and it got me thinking like. Does it really matter. Make no mistake, the whole decentralized fediverse nonsense is cool, but what always appealed to cohost about me was it's vibes. I like the culture here, the community. Cohost itself is ultimately a react app running the same general web stack as every other web app out there - and while using some weird, niche tech would be cool - it wouldn't really change the reason I use this thing, y'know.

Stable tech. Unique design choices.

When competition was trying to sell pricey handhelds with full-color screens, Nintendo made GameBoy and won through low price and high battery life. Cohost does not reinvent the wheel and does not go into newest&coolest tech, it does what works - they don't even wrap their site in electron to fool people they got a native app.

When competition raced to get the most frames per second and exclusive deals, Nintendo did crazy stuff like motion controls, 3D screen on a handheld or hybrid home/handheld console. Cohost is not chasing trends, it has unique approach to user interaction and content discovery - some may like it, some not, just like not everyone was into wiimote gameplay.

I don't have a need to go into "federated whatever" online just as much as i'm not interested in buying Xbox Series [some letter] or Play Station [current number]. It's good that i have a choice to use home-baked not-Tumblr that does not encourage me to chase popularity via numbers (except for a single april fools joke).