i love cohost but the structure of this site means every few weeks i'll log on and half my feed will be discussing some kind of discourse - either discussing some phenomenon without naming names or just vaguing about how there's some unspecified discourse on their feed (like i'm doing right now!) - and it'll just be impossible to track down the root of the discourse. this is good for when i want to go "welp. not my problem" and close the tab, but less good for when i want to know what the hell people are actually talking about. and because the community on here is small and fairly insular it's easy for it to feel like some discourse has taken over The Entire Site and you're just out of the loop on it
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It also makes it extremely difficult to get to the root facts of it, which means certain voices can dominate the Discourse without providing any factual information. It does kinda make for a Misinformation Telephone situation...
I hear about this kind of experience sometimes and it always surprises me because posts like this are by far the closest thing to any sort of discourse here
believe me when i say there IS discourse on here, it's just that without an algorithmic feed if no one you follow is posting about it and you don't find it in a tag then you won't hear about it
I ended up silencing the “discourse” tag, which works surprisingly well because it turns out people actually do tag discourse
i am in many ways grateful to be out of the loop of these. its rare that the discourse is actionable or even meaningful, especially on this site. it's not like political protests or real-world communal action is being organised here through this discourse. i'm not usually in the mood to read public callouts.
As Feybeasts says, it does feel like a misinformation telephone game. if it's important enough, someone will dedicate the time to give a long and detailed take on it which i will eventually come across.
A lot of discourse I see feels like it's imported from other social media sites too. It can take real effort to deduce what people are talking about.
I like that discourse isn't amplified by algorithmic stupidity where you go down a hole and your main feed gets filled with hot garbage. I'm here to look at furries with big boobs damn it, not see the latest discourse. If I wanted that I'd use Twitter.
my trick is i see who its getting mostly reblogged from and then just silence them, specifically.
after two or three of that it usually is mostly cleared up.
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