Confession: I'm very excited to play Pentiment (I spent a year in Bavaria as a kid AND I'm mad dorky for medieval anything) but every time I say Pentiment my dyslexic, southern mouth tries to say PIMENTO, as in, the cheese spread

This is something I noticed even before I made the Porn Creator Batsignal Post and has more or less been confirmed by it: there's barely any people posting, like, porn of actual humans on this website. Very very few porn performers, very few people posting casual nudes. The overwhelming majority of pornographic material being posted here is drawn. @BoringKate noticed this same thing a few days ago (which, admittedly, was before several days of Twitter-exodus-fueled userbase growth): https://cohost.org/BoringKate/post/266975-if-cohost-is-so-good

I think there's a few reasons for this:

• The site is still small potatoes in terms of potential exposure, making it an unsure bet to professional porn creators
• No common consensus has been reached in terms of tags that differentiate photographic/video porn of real people versus drawn/animated porn
• At this point the vast majority of the userbase are recent arrivals and most people who might start posting casual nudes need to at least feel out the vibe for a little bit first
• Site terms of service are unclear as to how directly people who do in-person sex work can market themselves here; why invest in a platform that might kick you off the second you post the link to your Tryst profile? Similarly, no DMs means that SWers can't really conduct business on-site anyways
• Had to edit this in cuz I can't believe I forgot to mention it: lack of video posting is obviously unattractive to performers who might want to post teaser clips
• Another edit: strippers and burlesque performers, who want to build regional followings of people who can attend in-person shows, aren't going to find that here yet (again, limited userbase)
• I've seen very little Cohost Evangelism targeted at live porn creators, actors, streamers, or sex workers. Most of the advocacy I've seen (and this is true of myself as well) has been directed towards people who make drawn content

I think that last point is something those of us who might know or subscribe to live porn creators etc could do better about - whether it's talking the site up over on Twitter (for as long as the site is extant, at least) or mentioning it in comments on OnlyFans/Fansly posts or wherever else you can think of, I think it'd be good to reach out and let folks know that this place exists. And I promise I'm not just saying that because I want to see more tits & hole on my feed

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