chirasul
@chirasul

something i'm noticing (and appreciating!) about cohost is that a lot of people simply did not and will not use any other social media type site other than cohost. as it turns out, there's a population of people who are already aware of and/or more sensitive to the antisocial way that social media is designed explicitly, and the design of cohost finally gave them a home with which to socialize with other people. and now that cohost is gone, i'm seeing a LOTTA people move preferentially to RSS or blogs or email newsletters or other forms of online posting that are, to be real, just as minimally social as you can get. which is great! but it's also sad to me because, like, idk about most people, but RSS (for example) is something I have not really actually managed to wrap my head around using; it's just technical enough for there to be too many barriers between me and wanting to use it, let alone make a daily habit of using it, just because of my really limited free amount of energy and willpower after everything else making demands of me every day. lowering barriers between users and posting i guess is one of the main draws of social media. anyway i dont have a conclusion, i've just been thinking about this. also please dont comment about how easy RSS is actually or link tutorials - i KNOW how to use it. i just dont WANT to. because using it is ANNOYING to me. thank you. i love you.


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I am trying to get into it but i cant find an RSS reader that displays thumbnails correctly. Like i mostly follow artists and having to click individual links to see the post properly is so tedious.

I largely feel the same... my compromise to myself has been bookmarking all the sites with feeds I might want to follow, so that I can set up RSS at some later date. But as with most of my protracted projects, that 'later' could easily slip into 'never.'

rss and blogs also really don't seem the place for the kind of small-scale "what if he was called willem da friend" fragments that are the meat and potatoes of a website such as this

I've always had an RSS feed on my blog, for which I publish a handful of lengthy articles per year which are relevant and interesting to only a tiny sliver of the already niche audience which might read my chosts. I think some people may move something resembling their chosting habits to an RSS feed, but a lot of people just... won't be doing that sort of thing anywhere anymore. Like me.