zestinpeace

Another animal on the computer

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Call me Zest. :3 Internet furry, fan of art, computers, and overthinking. Sydney, Australia. Born '98.


website thoughts (cohost vs alternatives)


i will still strongly recommend Cohost to people on both principle and practical experience, but i feel kind of alienated from what i informally consider the "main" active community here at present. like, i do have a pretty big overlap in interests and values with the vaguely defined demographic of "tech-savvy very-online trans furry women" which seems to comprise most of the people i follow, but it's not a complete overlap. most of the posts i see on Cohost feel like they're all written in a very similar voice, and its not a voice that i connect that strongly with...it's a nebulous and vague feeling, but it does inform how much i want to use a website. which is partly why i want more people to join, so it can feel more like a real social media site with a choice of small communities, instead of having to settle for one big one. but i also don't know how much of that feeling, that there is a Cohost Monolith, is actually justified, and how much of it is just the space i alone have curated.


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in reply to @zestinpeace's post:

yeah idk how helpful of advice I could give with such a vague and nebulous issue

there's a lot of very different people here so idk. I've come to enjoy this place in my short time here but I've only started actively using it in the past couple days.

I think a part of that sorta comes from a lot of early adopters falling into the "we're not [x]" which can lead to a certain "in-crowd" sorta tone. I think you're right though that as more poeple show up it'll feel more varied.

i think that's my issue - and it is a mild issue, nowhere near bad enough to drive me off this site (or cancel my cohost plus sub lol). a site that's still this small and focused on a specific set of values will naturally become a bit circlejerky. hell, even the biggest sites have a kind of default "posting style" or type of user. but there's still opportunity for difference and non-homogeneity as the userbase grows and people grow out of their old habits of posting