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@JailTheTrumps There just aren't that many actual trolls. People with different opinions, sure. But people who break the rules and spam or harass usually get kicked out pretty fast. It's nice.

There is a difference between private rights and public rights. Don't let the Republicans lie about equating masks to the right to choose.

Don't believe me? Try running around naked in the town square. It's a lot different then running around naked in your house.

@ceb Search for interesting hashtags but also USE hashtags in your posts. It lets everyone filter and find your content a lot more easily because there is no algorithm trying to do it for us!

@CaptainTime It also shifts your responsibility as a manager onto the employee. You're asking them to come to you instead of you proactively going to them, and a lot of people just aren't going to do it.

Accounts that only pump the firehose with rage inducing memes with little to no engagement get the block from me.

I'm well aware of the rage, the corruption and the hypocrisy that is baked into this system.

I already feel it. Every day. I'm here for shelter.

Note: This is not about venting. There is a huge difference between a human venting while engaging, and just constantly pumping outrage triggers.

@misslovelymess If we want to keep CoSo's culture that's the way to do it. Avoid engaging with people who don't get it yet and they'll either change or leave. Gently remind them that there's no algorithm to appease and this place is more about talking than shouting.

And finally, curate your own experience. Use the filters. I filtered the *ordle and even the CoSoMusic hashtag. I'm sure some people want to see that but I'm happier without it.

@magic_uno Lol, if it helps my wife is *much* better at driving manual than I am. She has owned a couple manual transmissions and I never have. I learned on my dad's truck when I was a teenager.

Dear CoSo...

Please feel free to ask me questions about the war (any war), both in public and in DM's.

I'll give you the best answers that I have and if I don't have an answer I'll tell you that too.

@magic_uno It's one of those things like starting fires, tying knots or sharpening knives. I don't find very many times when I need to know that stuff but I'm always glad that I do know how. Knowing that I *could* hop in a car with a manual transmission and drive it is nice even though mine is automatic.

@magic_uno My car doesn't have that but I do love the backup camera. I'm not good at parallel parking and I don't have to do it often where I live but I considered it a vital skill to learn.

@XSGeek I think we're still going through some growing pains. I haven't seen any announcements but J is always working on things in the background.

@GrumpyCubbyXXX I’d like to put in a vote for having some things that don’t change. I have a “usual” at every restaurant I go to and it bugs me when they take my favorite thing off the menu. I don’t mind seasonal stuff at all and sometimes I’ll even try it, but I do appreciate when there’s something on the menu that I can rely on.

@ScionAltera The way of championing the culture... Show it. Be it. This is life lesson I have learned. 🙏

I recognized it so quickly because I have been here before.

Not COSO. Social media without monetization algos.

Its great to find it again.

@rdwilson I also run a pihole and haven’t had any trouble.

@vozoto Honestly I just scroll past those posts without interacting. It’s a bad habit from the bird site and I don’t want to encourage it.

@Winchester99 We more than doubled the number of people here in the last week, as I understand it. All of those people are used to the bird site and it’s going to take some time for them to learn how CoSo is different. Particularly because it kinda looks and feels the same on the surface. But I think if we keep up the gentle reminders and explanations the old habits will gradually change.

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Scion Altera

CounterSocial is the first Social Network Platform to take a zero-tolerance stance to hostile nations, bot accounts and trolls who are weaponizing OUR social media platforms and freedoms to engage in influence operations against us. And we're here to counter it.