well, i guess it's finally over. cohost has gone read only, everyone's gone their own ways and everything we ever did there is trapped in time forever, frozen in amber like so many funny little (egg)bugs. i feel like i had a lot more shit i wanted to do before the end, but stress, burnout and sleep deprivation really started bogging me down. it is what it is....
i miss cohost already. it feels fuckin stupid but i cried when i saw the read-only banner. it was easily the best social media site i ever used. like a lot of folks, i jumped ship after the twitter buyout a couple years back and i'd been using it as my main posting outlet ever since. i got a lot of respect for its defiance of the standard social media design patterns, with all their features built to drive engagement-baiting and clout-chasing. cohost made me so incredibly aware of just how poisonous that shit is that i genuinely dont know if i could ever go back to the old styles of posting. i don't intend to. at least for now.
that said, i'll keeping an eye out for potential successors. im not gonna pretend cohost didn't have its problems, maybe they could've been straightened out, maybe not. we'll never know. but each fresh start is another chance to get it right, and hopefully whatever comes next can learn from cohost's failures and build on its successes. the website league seems promising in that regard, despite its goofy name. whatever happens, i hope we can all meet again some day... in a new age of posting......
anyway, thats it for now. i think this is finally the true "first post" on this blog. and at the end of it all... when it comes down to it.... well......
