punky-trans

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@punky-trans

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hi, im esther or es, a 31yo switch vers poly t4t slut of a trans girl trying to survive late stage capitalism in tennessee. i like ttrpgs, storytelling, punk music and music of all kinds, and i hope for a better future through community and organized direct action.
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krisispiss
@krisispiss

seeing more and more friends say they are permanently setting up here and it just makes me upset that I do not vibe with this place at all 😭 LIKE I GET IT tumblr is turning into liquid garbage right before our eyes and its so fair to want to migrate but!!! IDK I just do not have the mental capacity to use this website for whatever reason my brain just makes it NOT work... I do think a big part is it not having a dedicated app or more customizable appearance features, but idk it feels like nothing I post here gets any traction at all and that's what my mind is trained on to mean "what you made was good" and I know that's unhealthy and bad but I can't help it! Without it I have no incentive to get invested here outside of keeping it as an art dump and I don't think that's gonna change

Femperor
@Femperor

"numbers-chasing" is bad and creates the landscape we see on tiktok or twitter, but traction in itself is hardly harmful. Being able to turn posted art into commissions or getting ebegging to work at all requires traction. Idk if cohost just needs more people or if sharing posts feels disincentivized to current users, but getting eyes on posts is an important part of social media.

punky-trans
@punky-trans

i will say part of what makes this place so appealing to me is that its being actively developed and improved with feedback from the community. so whatever its flaws are, i have more faith that this place will continue to become better and thats enough for me. hell, they might end up adding some numbers at some point if enough of the users are begging for it.

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fearb33k33p3r
@fearb33k33p3r

thats fair!!! its def more of a website where u dont exactly get a following but instead a bunch of people will haphazardly rebug your posts , idk if there is such a thing as traction either because theres so few people as it is - i completely get where yr coming from, though, its really hard to see what ppl are saying here

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Kawa-Kir
@Kawa-Kir

I think its because its less "number" focused and more "community" focused.
At least thats the vibe i get.
Most social sites prides themselves with having numbers in the hundreds, thousands, millions, bajillions, and sure, it nice to see the numbers go up, but a lot of the time its quite superficial. The numbers are just data, not real interest or engagement.

Here we dont really have that.

Numbers are hidden or not counted, followers appear as a named list, comments dont have likes, etc.

In general its a more direct interaction based social media. Traction appears harder (in part because is also a relativelly small site but also) because its more effort to say something than to just press a heart button.

I think its just a matter of getting some using to, idk, maybe its just me, but i understand your frustration.

We gotta unlearn the "big number = good quality", it really messes up the brain.

About customization tho... yeah, could use some more refined and simple ui imo...

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BraveryTEWalker
@BraveryTEWalker

That's a very fair feeling. Personally, I'm giving this site a great deal of slack because it's a love project from an indie team, versus a dedicated team like what Tumblr has.

I do prefer sites without algorithms, because algorithms, while awesome to get traction, always turn into a "How do we hack this person's brain as much as possible?" which is nauseating for me. I'm still looking for YouTube alternatives because of this.

For me, I see it as rewarding when I build a following, slowly but surely. I feel like people enjoy my posts because they discovered me naturally and want to stick around, rather than some trend or algorithm they feel compelled to feed into.

cohost, at least for the moment, feels far more focused on dedicated communities, rather than networking. It's a different style of social media that some people are going to love and others are going to hate.

Personally, I quite enjoy the lack of numbers, because it pushes the user to focus more on quality versus quantity, and it also encourages people to actually comment and interact instead of just liking and scrolling.

I do wish that there were more customization options, as well as an app, but, as I've said, I'm giving the team grace because this is an indie site. It took ages for Bluesky to become open to everyone rather than needing an invite, and there's still plenty of work to be done. If you just want to use this as an art dump, that's valid.

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