I can't imagine participating in any kind of zoo space on any social media platform. What I've seen of it on the Twitter side is genuinely vile.

Pfft yeah.

I remember browsing zoo twitter and it was very horny or very whismical.

It looks like there was a bit of a community on Blusky for a but, then I guess they decided to drop support for them and ban them

It never works becuade the outside world sees zoo as an illegal harmful paraphilia and every time they try to make a space outside of zoo spaces it gets conflated with all the other crap

Yeah.

And the many bad people that exist, and various sites glorifying them, don't help

I don't think Bluesky ever "supported" them to be fair. But that platform was DOA in my eyes because they lack what I consider mandatory features.

There was an attempt that lasted a little while

Seemed like a safe space

None of the alternative sites interest me enough to want to try them even just for normal use. Maybe one day once a lot of the people I follow jump ship, and actually stay on the new ship, I'd consider moving somewhere. But meh.

I am not sure what I plan. For now, I just want to learn

Thing is, people are complacent. If the crazy timeline that Twitter has been through since Elon bought it doesn't push people away, nothing will. And they have no motivation to make that site better because people will use it anyway. ...goes the same with large zoo communities, lol

The problem is that the popular things are convenient and established. Alternatives exist but nobody uses them because they are inconvenient at best, a risk at worst if you rely on social media for income. If the masses don't move, those who commit have to sacrifice in some way or another. That's unfortunately difficult to do in this age of the internet.

Zoo spaces are a bit trickier since I feel that really comes down to logistics. Most people aren't willing or don't have the means/connections to make an earnest attempt at a new forum or whatever. I've got some hot takes on that but the shoutbox isn't the place for that. Lol

I still prefer emails over platforms. I rent the space, pick the provider, can move to another server

Mastodon was the better one for me. Bluesky, nah

/o\

Hey does anyone have any issues with the dismissable popup announcements (ZC does not host any explicit content, Hello X, you must introduce yourself, etc) coming back up shortly after dismissing them? They should normally not reappear.

Popups are gone :)