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Houston, we have Cohost!
Dec. 20th, 2022 02:26 pmIn trying to find a place to put short-form posts while I'm completing media (or 'liveblog'), since DreamWidth is where I intend to put finished full-length analyses, Cohost has proven itself to be a great outlet (and an alternative to Twitter or Tumblr).
I've had my personal Cohost since Halloween weekend and it's been very welcoming with a simple user interface. And, since there is a tagging system on Cohost, it will hopefully be easy to create a unique tag for individual works like "Dairy reads Robot Visions" or "Dairy replays Portal 2" that I'll be able to link to from my DreamWidth entries for anyone who wants to see my live reactions to specific titles.
I definitely don't expect anyone to keep up with this blog's Cohost page, it's just a happy medium between Tumblr and Twitter where I can store those notes and reactions online, while also being way more private than Twitter or Tumblr, since there are so few Cohost users (in comparison) and, the way Cohost is designed, it's much more difficult for random (sometimes unnecessarily antagonistic) people to stumble onto your posts.
Although Tumblr and Twitter are already well-established, I've personally been using both of those platforms since 2010 and, in their current states, it's just too uncomfortably easy for someone to search a topic and find your posts, even when they haven't explicitly been tagged with the words being searched. With Cohost, I can keep my page and posts public (so people without Cohost accounts can see them) without worrying as much about people who are complete strangers to this blog being able to find it when they're looking for something else (which has happened to me on both platforms many times in the past few years).
I've been working my way through Stray but I'm unsure of whether that will be the first thing I'll end up Cohost'ing my progress on... The other media currently on my docket are the SAYER podcast and A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers. There's also the media I'll have to re-watch to write my first analysis post, which will be a comparison of two scenes from Her and Blade Runner 2049, plus references to The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells... but I'll see what makes the most sense. Odds are, I'll Cohost about a few of these simultaneously.
As long as I'm getting this update out there, the webpage is getting a bit of a facelift soon! There's some art I'm working on now that I'm on holiday leave from work and, in addition to character portraits for a personal project, I've decided to sketch some new art for robot.florist so that it can look like one of the many cool lounge/café virtual hangouts found all over in the Neocities community. I'm excited to see it all come together.
I've had my personal Cohost since Halloween weekend and it's been very welcoming with a simple user interface. And, since there is a tagging system on Cohost, it will hopefully be easy to create a unique tag for individual works like "Dairy reads Robot Visions" or "Dairy replays Portal 2" that I'll be able to link to from my DreamWidth entries for anyone who wants to see my live reactions to specific titles.
I definitely don't expect anyone to keep up with this blog's Cohost page, it's just a happy medium between Tumblr and Twitter where I can store those notes and reactions online, while also being way more private than Twitter or Tumblr, since there are so few Cohost users (in comparison) and, the way Cohost is designed, it's much more difficult for random (sometimes unnecessarily antagonistic) people to stumble onto your posts.
Although Tumblr and Twitter are already well-established, I've personally been using both of those platforms since 2010 and, in their current states, it's just too uncomfortably easy for someone to search a topic and find your posts, even when they haven't explicitly been tagged with the words being searched. With Cohost, I can keep my page and posts public (so people without Cohost accounts can see them) without worrying as much about people who are complete strangers to this blog being able to find it when they're looking for something else (which has happened to me on both platforms many times in the past few years).
I've been working my way through Stray but I'm unsure of whether that will be the first thing I'll end up Cohost'ing my progress on... The other media currently on my docket are the SAYER podcast and A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers. There's also the media I'll have to re-watch to write my first analysis post, which will be a comparison of two scenes from Her and Blade Runner 2049, plus references to The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells... but I'll see what makes the most sense. Odds are, I'll Cohost about a few of these simultaneously.
As long as I'm getting this update out there, the webpage is getting a bit of a facelift soon! There's some art I'm working on now that I'm on holiday leave from work and, in addition to character portraits for a personal project, I've decided to sketch some new art for robot.florist so that it can look like one of the many cool lounge/café virtual hangouts found all over in the Neocities community. I'm excited to see it all come together.
