just when I was getting into a posting groove. Fuck. There's nowhere else that satiates my urge to tell people about my day that doesn't feel too public but also isn't annoying the fuck out of my friends in the discord server
Cohost was really the perfect social media for me. It was like if Tumblr was functional. I refuse to make a bsky on principal and mastodon confuses and intimidates me.
Everywhere you can find me is linked on my profile. I'm gonna miss y'all so much
It was nice while it lasted, I had a lot of fun here. Thank you for making it such a wonderful place.
Here’s all my links, I’m not very far away
🌧️🫧💕💧💫🌿☁️🪡🧵
— BlushingYokai is my NSFW handle
— Bonegloss is my SFW handle
✷ Tumblr
— http://bonegloss.tumblr.com
— http://vile450003.tumblr.com (insp/art reblogs)
— http://threadmilk.tumblr.com (personal/reblogs)
— http://sh9h.tumblr.com (plush θ∆ stuff)
✷ FurAffinity (hosts BY & BG work)
— http://furaffinity.net/user/BlushingYokai
✷ Other Spaces
— https://bsky.app/profile/blushingyokai.xyz
— https://bsky.app/profile/bonegloss.xyz
— http://patreon.com/BlushingYokai
— http://t.me/BlushingYokai
— http://twitter.com/BlushingYokai
— http://twitter.com/bonegloss
— http://instagram.com/bonegloss (inactive)
— http://are.na/vile450003
— http://bonegloss.xyz
✷ Discord Servers
— http://titmou.se/grove (The Yokai Grove; personal queer-friendly art server / 18+ only)
— https://discord.gg/tGCQje8qBs (Adipem Sanctum; fat-focused body positivity server / 18+ only)
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Genuinely the greatest social media experience I've ever had. Followed 10 people at the start, kept following others from posts those 10 shared and ended up with my main point of public online social interaction since my Discord dweller days.
First place to make me comfortable to share EVERYTHING I followed.
First place to make me draw out of the sheer joy of the thing.
First place to make my fucking chest hurt while I go through the home page to find others' socials.
welp it was a nice try but I guess the internet really isn't built to have anything complex last
tbh I've been thinking about it and honestly social media just does not appear to be profitable at all. just consider the biggest examples, dig even the slightest bit down and you quickly notice that their actual business is either:
sometimes both. ...usually both
people like having a place to chat with random other people and stuff but in the world of economics (ANY economics, not just capitalism) what value is there in that to begin with. so if we want to avoid those top two monetization schemes (because they're awful) we have to go to crowdfunding the promise that we're A Thing that people want instead and well, I can look at tumblr and reddit being on constant fire, there's always a great example of how much of a gap you need to clear from twitter chasing away nearly all its advertisers. we only start getting successful in that model when we shift away from social media. closest is the content creator sites with individual subscriptions and even there there's caveats; youtube was a loss leader for google for ages before they even tried that (I THINK it's profitable on its own merits now? I forget), twitch seems to be in a never-ending state of constant blunders, patreon definitely gets worse and worse every time I am forced to hear about it, and I don't know anything about places like onlyfans lol
even if these work out you do still need constant growth because social media sites tend to not delete things so the storage amounts and related costs just keep going up and up and up but you're probably not getting a proportionate increase in revenue
there's probably a lot of people here older than me (I'm 31) but I am old enough to remember the BBS era of the internet. tons of smaller communities just doing their own shit. that's definitely cheaper because you're not keeping as much data and vbulletin is still in business so I guess it's still working to a degree but the smaller communities meant they were doomed to become niche when bigger sites came along and promised even bigger Numbers
idk where I'm going with this
