laurentheflute

Not actually a flute

I write too many words, talk too much, and have very big feelings. Storyteller, VGM flutist and singer, Twitch affiliate, fanfic writer, Texan-Canadian.


It has been so long since I was on a site where you have to hit a button to see older posts, I stared in confusion for a few moments

I remember when LiveJournal switched from the arrow buttons (like they have here) to a Tumblr style infinite scroll and I was so upset; even at the time I think I was aware that this was going to mess me up somehow, psychologically, which of course it did and still does

And yet that's gotten so normalized everywhere that even as a former enemy of the infinite scroll I had forgotten there could be another way

Thank you, cohost, I really do want to find a home here, I just cannot figure out how yet and it feels like a big echoey space when I come here, please help me make cohost friends :)


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in reply to @laurentheflute's post:

I agree, pagination in social media feeds is a great harm-reduction measure. And it explicitly evokes the ethos of cohost, that it is not an attention-harvesting tool, and is not incentivized to "maximize engagement". Feels good and safe.