it's almost exclusively lefties and very queer and very furry. the site is designed to prevent pile-ons and that sort of thing. it's very easy to prevent posts from getting out of your small audience/group
it's also tends to move at a much slower pace than sites like twitter/bsky
Oh, totally understood. But I follow so many trans folx on there and hear so much trans discourse there, it's one of the main things I use the site for.
I'd try co-host if I could get past the fucking sign up screen 🙃
It doesn't respect accessibility cookies for the captcha for signups. So. Never was able to get past that barrier lol
They don't really care about accessibility. They didn't even bother putting alt text on staff announcement posts until the absolute most recent few, which is the lowest bar.
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