cohost was built off of the lessons learned from a life spent on social media, looking at the mistakes others had made, looking at what they did right, and trying to build a platform that combined the best and accounted for the worst.
i hope that at some point in the future someone will look at the mistakes we made and the things we got right and do the same to us.
Cohost in the end feels like it was an experiment in what a better web could be, and I think it succeeded in spades, even if the site itself can't go on as it has.
I don't think there's going to be a "new Cohost", but something I saw that I loved was RuSSHdown's tagline of "Eggbug Memorial RSS Feed Project".
I like the idea of, going forward, Cohost being a kind of movement more than a single site. A pledge to a certain kind of experience and attitude that remembers what made the place different and great. That's why I put the "I was on Cohost" eggbug on my new blog: I want people to know that's the kind of web I want to see in the world, and keep on creating there.
A lot of people seemed to want this site to fail, but it won't have, as long as we all take what we learned and spread it far and wide.
Eggbug lives!
