Here's my 1-month #review of #CoSo following my migration from #Twitter.
Thread follows, but tl;dr - while I miss some aspects of Twitter, CoSo is a completely different experience and I've found a whole new side to social media that I'm really enjoying. I just need to put the effort in so that I get more out!
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I like the Firehose. It's nice to jump on now and again for a random snippet of interaction; the general tone is far more conversational than confrontational, which is such a nice change of pace.
It's easy to avoid doomscrolling, mainly due to the general lack of doom! Filters are a necessity, helping simultaneously keep focus and avoid the esoteric and the yawn-inducing. Fortunately this are easy to use. #cosomusic is a particular highlight that deserves some time .
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I mainly use mobile, but when I am on desktop the ability to pin tagged subjects is really useful, especially during an event. I should make more effort to sit down with it every so often instead of using the mobile app.
coso has not been able to replace Twitter for news & original content , I see this is as being purely down to the smaller scale and lack of organisations & notable individuals on the platform. How am I supposed to troll my local MP now? 😅
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I would be interested to see how CoSo would change if it got _really_ popular...so here's hoping!
One of the big benefits I've seen is that after a week or so off Twitter I stopped randomly unlocking my phone to check something I'd just been looking at.
Do I miss Twitter? Yes, but not as much as I thought I would. The real acid test is whether I would go back to Twitter if it was magically de-Musked tomorrow? All things considered...I don't think I would. So I guess I'm here to stay.
@CrowTheory
The real benefit of CS is the non-troll, non-pile on & non-hashtag tweeters that twitter has.
I have just spent few months tracking troll accounts, their ALTs & working out who they are, grabbing account info for when they morph their accounts with name changes and putting it on a database to manage & cross reference.
So a place without the need for that, is kind of useful.
Internet safe environments are needed for adults too, not just children.
@DoxyMus1c How do you think the environment might be affected if CoSo gains, say, 10 times the user base in a year's time?
@CrowTheory
Still a newbie, but my guess would be that the community fire hose would end up with accounts tick boxing their interests, so the firehose could be filtered to more aligned interests as a way to stop the screen scrolling & information overload with stuff that is totally irrelevant to somebodys focus.
Having said that, its nice to see random stuff, but not if it means screen scroll.
@CrowTheory
Online protection & anti-troll measures would also be the biggest challenge.
But think CS has it cracked by eliminating problem countries totally, & would also have a better take on any bot algorithms detection than other platforms as Jester is code & criteria focused background, so an achiever, rather than a a shiny objects person that well, dont achieve😂 .