there is no good social media, only good friends.

a lot of my investment in these forums on a personal level is the desire to get the fuck off of twitter. nothing good comes of being on twitter. but most of my audience is there... and so i hope these forums will slowly leech users from twitter and to here. twitter is a shithole with few redeeming qualities and those redeeming qualities are disappearing faster than ever. i also keep up a tumblr presence - it is my go-to doomscrolling site - but tumblr is, as mentioned. pretty unspokenly racist. the upside is that nobody gives a fuck what happens there. "oh, they said something on tumblr-" who gives a fuck. the premise is self-defeating.

that said, as a poster, my minecraft-esque fallen kingdom is cohost, which was tumblr for hipsters. considering tumblr was already tumblr for hipsters... bad sign. but i loved cohost. no numbers, no engagement drive, very few dark patterns. it deserved a better culture than it got, which was mostly "the seattle of the internet", circling the discourse drain forever, with the same sins as tumblr. it had a deep streak of unspoken racism that forms when your userbase is 95% white, it had a streak of transmisogyny. but as a site itself, there's a lot to learn from, both its successes and its failures. my beautiful, naive dream is that we can channel the best parts of cohost into the forums, where i think the effortposter spirit will thrive.