No. Cohost is fundamentally designed against popularity. Popularity is a negative experience, actually, on Cohost; when I have had a post get popular, its just meant I’ve seen my own post multiple times in a row on my own timeline.

I don’t want that, I’m here for everybody else’s posts.

I am on Cohost for exactly one reason: to meet interesting people and talk about Star Wars with them as friends. It’s working out well! Please comment on my posts, I want to hear your thoughts!

But popularity? Fame? Calm? I’ve given up all chance at influence. I’ve made my account a sunless space. I share my posts with ghosts. I wake up every day to an equation I wrote two weeks ago from which there’s only one conclusion: I’m damned for what I do. My anger, my ego, my unwillingness to yield, my eagerness to fight, they’ve set me on a path from which there is no escape. I yearned to be a savior against injustice without contemplating the cost, and by the time I looked down, there was no longer any ground beneath my feet. What is... * what is my sacrifice? I’m condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them. I burn my decency for someone else’s future. I burn my life, to make a sunrise that I know I’ll never see. No, the ego that started this fight will never have a mirror, or an audience, or the light of gratitude. So what do I sacrifice?

EVERYTHING

someone on here posted about the James Turrell "Aftershock" installation in Copenhagen Contemporary and i thought that'd make for a rad "studio" so i did a quick recreation in blender.

I like Traverse Town: both the location and the music that plays there. It's nice to imagine there is somewhere the stars always shine bright and lost travelers are always welcome. It's a place of hope and reunions and stories told around the flickering light of a wood stove. But everyone who finds their way there has experienced loss and the music regularly drops into a minor scale just long enough to acknowledge that.