- post something that makes you happy
- keep going
that's it, really
you don't have to be some superpowered nerd, and sure enough there is an audience for that here, but you just gotta be earnest about your own little hobbies, even the ones you're sure no-one else pays attention to—especially those ones
people don't come to cohost to learn things, they come to hang out with other weird nerds talking about whatever weird nerd shit they're into
i mean, for me, that's often computer shit, sometimes it's photography, and other times it might be me drunkenly posting about the influence of the bossa nova disc in the optigan synthesizer, the incredible signage design of margaret calvert, or the way in which jan tschihold renounced his modernist stances in light of the rise of fascism
but mostly i go "YOU CAN USE POTATO WATER TO DEVELOP FILMS. NATURES MAGICAL TUBERS"
