Alison
Mama, grad student at UofT, coauthor of some unbooks about business
Joined Apr 2022
if we're new to a neighbourhood (especially if we arrive by the gazillions) and haven't contributed, we probably shouldn't complain while we learn the rules :)
"I would take another, I have a full grown man child who was once a very faint second line..." is something I wanted to say to the lady at the grocery store who thinks her covid test was a false positive. Eek.
Hear me out, a movie about a friends weekend in New York, but John Wick is just happening in the background. Maybe they get a last minute deal at the continental...I'd watch that 800 times.
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Welcome new arrivals! For those of you who decide to adopt CoSo as your online home, this time of excitement & uncertainty, meeting new people and finding old friends from Tw, will become a special kind of memory. It will partially define your “generation” here.
Each wave has its own set of memories--from the earliest days, to public launch, until now.
Throughout, we all preserve the sense of goodwill and community that makes this place special even as it evolves and gets better.
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What happens on CoSo?
Community happens.
Lot's of different communities, many overlap, and flow into one another. And just as in real life communities change and grow. So here we support you in creating your own, or jumping into an existing one.
Remember those rules you learned in kindergarten? They apply here as well.
Share.
Be kind.
No biting.
Naps.
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Uh oh, it looks like the extra url stuff got trimmed. Try this one: https://nyti.ms/376QhEQ
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Good Morning! ☕️☕️☕️
What are you up too? We’re (hopefully) Kayaking this morning.
👉 NEW #CoSoNaughts - Welcome! here’s a User Guide
https://counter.social/userguide.pdf
@realDDGlover has commonly used tags on their page that will help your interests and get acclimated
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It just occurred to me that for many, particularly the new arrivals there may be almost a hint of anxiety about connecting.
There is room for everybody, and the potential for awesome connections to develop in time.
Please don't feel a sense of urgency to get settled with tons of follows/followers.
CoSo is truly about the conversations and the reciprocity that comes with knowing and caring.
The music won't cut out and leave anyone stranded.
💛
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psssssst, newbies!
a lot of the older folk use keywords to filter out stuff we don't want to see. for example, the guy who just bought that other site.
if you wanna make a post about not-that, i suggest not using those specific keywords in your post, else you'll get caught by many folks' filters! :)
just talk about the stuff you *do* wanna talk about. s'good. :)
Any classic (to my 16yo) horror movies anyone wants to recommend? I’m a coward with no experience. They got a criterion channel subscription, which is pretty great so far.
keeping #dogsofsoco pinned at the side, because happiness :)
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when you haven't travelled since before COVID, hotel prices are quite the shock.
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Do you HATE Wordle? Would you prefer to never hear about it again? There's a setting for that!
Go edit your profile, then click on 'Filters'. Add "Wordle" or anything else you'd like to personally ban, and presto! It'll vanish like magic. #CoSoTips @NickTheSkydiver
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what are CoSo lists?
lists allow you to create lists (no way!) of users, which you can pin to a column to create a feed of just posts from those folks -- here's how:
in the far right column, click Lists
pick a name and click +
click the list, click the show settings icon (upper right of column) and click edit list
once your done adding folks, you can click +Pin and voila! your list is now a custom feed of the folks in the list
happy listing!
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New folks…
We don’t care about follower counts here. Follow, unfollow…it doesn’t matter.
What matters here is community. Kindness, fun, learning, sharing, caring…you get the idea.
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Hey New Folks… Looking for folks with similar interests? Check out CoSo’s extensive list of established hashtags to find folks chatting about things you like. Than look up their profile pages and read through their posts to see if they might be a good follow for you.
Check out the profile of @realDDGlover for lists of Hashtags for interests. Just click ID and it will open on right-hand column. Scroll down through lists.
#cosotips
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Alison
Mama, grad student at UofT, coauthor of some unbooks about business
Joined Apr 2022