When I added the feed I put their Cohost username at the end in parentheses, but last night I realized that I wanted to flip it— I put @username at the front and then put all their carefully considered blog titles in parentheses after that. That small change makes me feel a little bit closer to everyone, as silly as it sounds. -topghost
what a rad suggestion, what a great idea, what a--okay, done. Did that, feels really really nice.
One of my big Things is my relationship with memory--I had a really good one, and then there was some Weird Times, and then some Bad Times, and then some Very Bad Times and I have some serious holes in my brain. Whats funny is I'm still able to latch onto a lot of things--I can rattle off damage tables for probably more than one video game, I am the Go To Rules Guy around here for board games, I can tell you whether a mushroom is likely edible, rattle off like 18 digits of pi I learned as an eight or nine year old, and a million other Neat Things... most of the time when someone goes "remember that time when _____" I usually do remember it, even! And yet I still have these huge holes and shredded hazy ideas and I can never look at something and confidently go "yeah, I can remember that". Memory is so fragile, and it's not hard to lose. That's probably a good thing in a lot of ways, but it also means I adore tricks to help maintain a memory, or a name, or a connection between a person and place.
I really love private note fields in apps--if you're on my discord friend list or I followed you on cohost, there probably is a note there: little things like timezone or how we met or what other usernames you've used. My Greatest Wish when it comes to an RSS feed app is the ability to add a note on each feed I follow so I can remind myself why. It's really important to me to do that cuz I know how easy it is to lose