mcc

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Nobody explained to me what this is

Here is a "COHOST TIP". Do you miss "lists" from other social media sites? This morning I was complaining Cohost does not support "Lists". Christine was like "why not just make a page?". I didn't know what that was.

I thought that box in the upper right was for like, multiple account logins or something? In fact it's for making Tumblr-style sub-accounts from the login/password you're already using. What's interesting tho is each "Page" you make has its own list of follows and followers. You can make a private "Page", post no content from it, and just follow a group of people you want to put in their own feed, and that works just like a "List" on Twitter, Facebook or Mastodon.

Things to be aware of:

  1. Once you create a page you cannot delete or rename it except by emailing Cohost staff. So just be careful. I now have a Page named "THIS-IS-A-TEST" possibly forever.
  2. The page you created will not be publicly linked to your main account unless you do so in the bio (ofc I'm sure mods can see it's you)
  3. If you switch "pages" in one tab it automatically switches over all other tabs in the same browser. So maybe this is a feature you might combine with Chrome browser profiles.

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in reply to @mcc's post:

you can also share pages with people! they're building the front-end out still but the back-end allows you to share pages with other people, so all you have to do is ask support and they can grant post access :)

one other thing to note about pages-as-lists is that if you are on a page all your replies will come from that page, so if you forget and reply with that instead of your main people may be confused

also for anyone using Firefox, it has an official Multi-Account Containers extension that also provides similar functionality to Chrome browser profiles, on a per tab basis