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.
