it would rule if Cohost became a place where people shared weird archive dives of old comics and movies and stuff. just in general it'd be so great if internet culture could respond to the breakdown of the big algorithm sites by returning to a more curatorial approach to culture, a sort of circulate the tapes ethos rather than a buy/binge the latest thing (which is in any case a remake of something from the 80s) ethos
like without slipping into a kind of idealist voluntarism or just a kind of vote with your wallet or your likes mindset, I DO think there's some value in saying, hey, maybe we could be engaging culture differently and more healthily? and then take the next step, as Anti Software are doing, of saying "here are structural affordances that could support something different." maybe!
I've likened my actions in the past to a kind of cat bringing fish and string and bobbins to people to show them interesting or beautiful things. The best bits of the internet, I think, reflect this urge too - and one of the reasons I've fallen so hard for Cohost is how it feels like the platform encourages and is built for that process. Long may it do so.
