psilocervine

but wife city is two words

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cohost (arknights)
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I dunno I just think I prefer the way cohost requires you to actively engage with the site compared to shit like mastodon and twitter where it's just a constant stream of people and pages and whatever. I think it not necessarily being a "timeline" is its greatest strength, same with its opposition to things like algorithmic content sorting. while algo hell isn't a thing on mastodon, it ultimately still is a twitter 'em up

things like having comments on posts makes stuff on cohost more "cozy," for lack of a better word. it means there's a conscious choice between whether you're choosing to share something or respond to something too, which is something sites like tumblr also pretty specifically lack

I'm just seeing a lot of hubbub about whether or not cohost should or should not Show Numbers and I think pretty much everything I've seen in favour of numbers has fundamentally missed the point of the site


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in reply to @psilocervine's post:

Even having metrics but having the option to hide them would fundamentally change how people interact with this place, because people would still be making toxic "engagement bait" posts, we just wouldn't be able to see the metrics on them.

The straw that broke the camel's back with me for Twitter was seeing a tweet going around that was like "How attractive are you? give your honest answer in a QRT" and sure there were people giving silly joke answers, but there was also tons of people just completely being shitty to themselves and putting themselves down. For what? Likes and retweets? It's just absolutely caustic.

As a fresh Twitter refugee, I very much adore how the numbers aren't there. It makes the healing from algorithms and chasing clout for engagement much easier, and I feel I can actually relax here.