Gwen

Dumbass in a dumb land

  • She/Her

I was born in the late Holocene and I've seen some shit




sutempest
@sutempest

It's not a disorganized mess, it's just its own kind of weird organization (i also omitted the second screen but that's because it's empty of icons)


Behemoth
@Behemoth

My desktop is nice and cozily cluttered, just like my living space. I know where everything is if I need it!


trainsfemme
@trainsfemme

to find everyone here running windows
also very surprised to find that people actually have icons on their desktop??? instead of just keeping apps in their launcher?


binarycat
@binarycat
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blackle
@blackle

highly custom awesome wm, with a photo I took as the wallpaper


vectorpoem
@vectorpoem

honestly, i haven't missed icons. the mess is still there but it lives in other places where it's more manageable.




listen, i talk a lot of shit about cohost and most of my problems are intrinsic to the philosophy of the site's design and to the tediousness of the most fervent supporters in its userbase. but i genuinely am rooting for this site, even if i fundamentally am at odds with its owners about how and when they decide to paternalistically decide what is and is not good for the userbase and what features are 'healthy' for the userbase and which ones are not.


ultimately i am a person who believes in strong hands-on moderation and curation and do not actually believe in most ideologies that place belief in good-faith self-organizing and i believe so much of cohost is built around that as a hopeful mantra more than anything else, while still making deeply paternalistic decisions like 'private metrics aren't usually good, almost nobody needs them' or 'publicly viewable metrics are universally bad', which i'm not sure i believe even a little bit, among a variety of other decisions. I understand cohost's goals but i do not usually agree with its choices. also I find the constant fucking bitching about people who chose to remain on twitter or move to bluesky instead of picking cohost, a site that does not actively meet their needs, deeply fucking annoying and pathetic.

So while i am rooting for the site in the long run, because i also am sick of the corporate internet and enshittification, seeing bigtime cohost supporters getting hoisted by their own petards for a few of these issues coalescing into a ballooning culture problem on the site is extremely funny to me.




atomicthumbs
@atomicthumbs

once again wishing cohost had a way to uninvent something. i created the global feed as a joke (as evidenced by the awkward phrasing), people took it seriously, and then as an even more obvious joke about the tendency of 20th century marxist-leninist political parties to split, tagged something as "the cohost global feed (marxist-leninist)," and everyone just fucking shrugged their shoulders and took this as the pattern. stop!!! just use normal tags! please! this is not the way to develop a good tagging culture and promote discoverability!

edit: it's gone so far as to make other things on the site worse. the global feed was a mistake and the time has come to move beyond it.


shel
@shel

Also “#The Cohost Local Feed (City)” makes no sense just tag it as #city


qualia
@qualia
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