#Ideas and Discoveries

In Istanbul, Turkey, they made a statue to honor the famous stray cat (Tombili) that used to sit in this position and watch the passers by.

#cosophotography
#photography
#flower

Shout out to @th3j35t3r for your hard work in getting CoSo infrastructure upgraded, back up and running smoother and snappier! 👍 👍

owl...

Folks, - After the herculean effort to get COSO up, in a severe twist of ironic fate nobody can go PRO right now - it's a certificate thing.

I'll fix it tomorrow.

Welcome new users!

All Newcomers…
Welcome to CoSo 😊
Here is the User Guide:
https://counter.social/userguide.pdf

Some suggestions: 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. Hashtags are explained on page 7 of the Guide above. Page 5 of the Guide tells how to change your AVI from an egg to an image of your choice. Try # cosotips too.
Also, we love pet/animal pics. Here’s my cat saying”stop with the pics” 🤣💕🤣

"The most important thing to know about Musk is that he is a troll. Like all trolls, he sets out to offend and to upset, purely to get the world’s attention. Except Musk is not only better at trolling than anyone else, it is a vital part of both his business model and how he treats the world. And it is what makes his purchase of Twitter so dangerous." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/26/elon-musk-king-of-trolls-purchase-twitter-dangerous

Welcome to all who have newly arrived. As you may have noticed, COSO is experiencing a large influx of folks. The Community Firehose, where you see posts from all users, is on fire right now. Folks you follow show up in your My Friends feed.

This users guide will help you sort out some details in the interim
https://counter.social/userguide.pdf

We are glad you’re here! 💜

Some of the behaviors learned to protect yourself on more toxic sites really stand out as maladaptive here.

Try to treat each person here as a person, because they are.

Someone rub you the wrong way? Mute them. Check your mute list occasionally and reassess.

Someone really out of bounds?
Block and report them.

Not sure?
Talk with them.

Love you, good talk. 💚

To Read:

(note: this will be controversial.)

Arundhati Roy on Religious Nationalism, Dissent, and the Battle Between Myth and History.

“Our hopes have been cauterized, our imaginations infected.”

https://lithub.com/arundhati-roy-on-religious-nationalism-dissent-and-the-battle-between-myth-and-history

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Good afternoon and welcome new folks!

Here’s some coffee and snacks as a housewarming gesture 💛

A user guide to help you get to know the place:

https://counter.social/userguide.pdf

Enjoy!

Welcome!
Is there a particular topic that you are interested in? All of the favorite #hashtags are pinned on my profile.
—five sections and in alphabetical order.

Use the search bar (in upper left of your screen) to enter a hashtag and click on it when it shows up below. Even if “0” are talking at the moment, the thread will come up.

Jump into any conversation, it is OK, really. Or start your own.
😎

🥳 Welcome! I wish I could hang out & get to know you new folks but am working.
Here’s a User Guide. Please SHARE
https://
counter.social/userguide.pdf

@realDDGlover has commonly used tags on their page that will help your interests and get acclimated.

OK LISTEN UP NEW FOLKS

The # of followers you have don’t mean shit here.

Repost:

For all the new folks.

The whole "number of followers" racket does NOT work here.
There is no algorithm that keeps track. We don't count. Follow who you wish, but don't expect to get any points for it.

We value community, conversation, and honest discussion.
Join any conversation, just don't be an asshat.

Photos

All Platforms that take photos, add EXIF data to the file.
Here J scrubs all that data out first before it even hits the servers. This is a feature, not a bug, for security reasons.

Now the way to fix this is take a photo, from your camera on a smartphone or a file. Open it in any photo editor, does not matter which one. and make any small edit, any at all, crop, or enhance color, anything. then save that edited photo. Then up load that to CoSo.
All will be well.

There is a fix coming

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Another #Protip 🙂

Because CoSo doesn't promote content, new folks find accounts to follow through different ways

1. Watch the community firehose for interesting posts and follow

2. Check out hashtags, many of which are pinned on @realDDGlover 's account :)

3. Folks are friendly and you are welcome to join threads--find your tribe that way

#welcome and Enjoy!!

#CoSoRocks

I will keep reposting for all to see
User Guide:
https://counter.social/userguide.pdf