Within 5 minutes of using the CoSo browser version of this platform, this is looking extremely promising. I've used Twitter since 2007 and a heavy TweetDeck user (reader). Will be spending the day monitoring CoSo and checking this community out. Seems to fit what I am looking for relating to content, ethics, and attitude. I'm a real-time news junkie with a heavy interest in breaking news. Looking for local topics, business, activities, and history. #introduction #sacramento #california
@Sacramento Hi there!
Bergeron
@Sacramento welcome! :) also people here are very friendly. no trolls or bots to deal with.
@Sacramento I used Tweetbot. When Musk messed that up in January I almost left twitter then. But today is the last straw. I’m mainly here for news too. If you figure out how to find the news channels, let me know.
@Sacramento I used TweetDeck a lot too, and it helped with the transition.
@Sacramento Hi! Follow me and I will bury you in news posts, usually between 4-6 in the morning, lol. Welcome!
@Sacramento 👋🏽 Welcome!
@BreakingNews Is one to follow….
Also several others for #Ukraine news: like At Render. They are exceptionally busy, even over the weekend so I’m trying not to interrupt.
@Sacramento welcome to the madhouse
Welcome--wonderful to see all the new folk from #twitter!
As I'm sure others have mentioned, there is no algorithm here--the site is driven by #hashtags.
If you're interested in topics like #news, you can follow specific accounts to have them appear in your My friends feed.
But since there's so much news content, I've pinned column with #news as one of the search terms to have everything with that hashtag appear there--doesn't take over my timeline.
Welcome to CoSo, Ant! If you're into "breaking news," you've come to the right place!
Between @COSOCOM @Render @TheNewsOwl and at least half a dozen others I'm currently forgetting, we've got breaking news in spades.
@Sacramento
Welcome to CoSo 🥰
Here is the User Guide:
https://counter.social/userguide.pdf
Some suggestions:
Try # cosotips & @CoSoTips
CoSo community is built on hashtags, so look 👀 at the extensive list of #s in the guide.
Follow a few folks from the Firehose who interest you and settle into a friendly community.
Also, we love pet/animal pics. Here’s my cat saying ”stop with the pics” 🤣💕🤣
@Sacramento Have you found “simplified mode” yet? Jester @th3j35t3r created it to help folks who used to use tweet deck get acclimated here a little easier. 🥰 Go to your last column, where the menu should be with Firehouse at the top and look for Switch to Simplified Mode.
Hope you’re having a good time here 🥰
@Sacramento welcome! your tweetdeck might even make it easier to adjust to CoSo faster. 👋
@Sacramento welcome! Lots of helpful folks here!