julez

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@julez

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DieselBrain
@DieselBrain

gonna try to make a habit of commenting more on posts that i really, really like here on cohost. Even if i dont have anything to say other than "this rules" or a heart emoji or some shit i wanna get into the habit of actually voicing those feelings towards creators on here so they can SEE some kind of reaction to their work that's a lil less ephemeral than just a like

i want creators to feel like their time is worth investing onto this platform and i think more comments that explicitly tell folks that what they made was enjoyed by me and others would go a long way

ThirtyHelens
@ThirtyHelens

honestly if anyone thinks artists don't like hearing a plain "I love this" because you think it seems perfunctory--it doesn't. I like it and so do most other artists.

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DieselBrain
@DieselBrain

i think trying to foster a site-culture of commenting more would help with the whole "idk how good any particular post is doing" thing freelancers worry about.

people who comment are, by nature, always gonna be more engaged and invested in your work than folks who dont. it encourages less passive consumption compared to twitter. while metrics may still be hidden, a culture of normalized commenting can still give creatives and small businesses something to work off of.

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witnesstheabsurd
@witnesstheabsurd

Yeah! I think i'll probably continue to feel nervous until I get the opportunity to fill a full set of slots on Cohost, regardless of what they change. I think if I could get a nice slate of clients right here like I can on twitter that would feel like I was finally "free" from that site and could stop being terrified about covering bills every time it shakes.

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witnesstheabsurd
@witnesstheabsurd

To that end I think that's why i'm rankling against the stuff on this platform I don't immediately gel with - i'm letting my anxiety and desire to be unshackled from twitter push me to get louder than I would usually, when it's maybe not totally necessary. I think I just need time to adjust.

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DieselBrain
@DieselBrain

nah i totally get you. the way twitter is dying right now doesnt make any of this easier and is gonna make a lot of us recoil from new ideas out of instinct. its frustrating, but i think we do have to fight some of our knee jerk reactions just a lil bit!

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Dick-Nation
@Dick-Nation

What I'm trying to do more than anything is just promote and nudge creators to set up accounts here and start using them. It's a catch-22, creators don't want to use a site that doesn't have a userbase, but users won't go to the site without creators. I've already killed my Twitter browsing full-stop (and frankly I had quit using it even before Elongated Muskrat got his grubby hands on it), but we're still not quite to that mass of users that makes it attractive. Of my Twitter follow list that I've been culling away to refollow on other sides, fully a quarter of those users have zero other galleries or socials, and a great deal more of them are not actively using any other site besides Twitter. The divorce with that platform is going to be a really hard breakup.

I just wish that anyone would appreciate that they can do it now and support a platform that has their best interests in mind, or they can do it later when the failure becomes catastrophic instead of plodding, with the potential for no net on the other end.

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