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.