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Seirdy wrote (edited )

The ideas behind the platform seems solid, but I'm getting exhausted. Everyone has their own take on what social media should be. I'm already in the process of phasing out my Reddit and Hacker News usage.

On top of jstpst (love this place 😘), lobste.rs, tildes.net, the Fediverse, Lemmy (strictly part of the Fediverse but doesn't fully interoperate, hence the need for an account), various forums, and my IndieWeb site: I have another piece of social media.

I think that if someone wants me to consider their social media platform, it needs to do at least two of the following:

  1. Be small/inactive enough to not reward excessive attention, but not so small that I feel like I'm talking to myself. There's a grey area somewhere in between.
  2. Interoperate with other social networks so I don't have to actually join it (the Fediverse, the IndieWeb)
  3. Have an unusually nice community

So I hope Cohost does well, but I don't think I have it in me to give it a try unless I hear good news of at least two of the above. I'll ask around in a week.

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Seirdy wrote

nevermind I'll give it a try, nobody's forcing me to stay if i don't like it.

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twovests wrote

It kinda brings me back to the time of phpBB and proboards and whatnot. I loved having all these tiny forums, sometimes run by some narcissistic teenager, etc.

Now people are building their social media from scratch which is kinda rad. Jstpst has been my favorite place to post

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