Cohost was wonderful. I’m sad that the community didn’t grow large enough so that it could be self sufficient. I fear that the small community was the reason that it was pleasant here. This is a terrible catch 22. A bigger community means the site could be financially solvent, but it means we have to fight of CHUDs for the rest of time.
My fear is that small communities can exist at the whim of a benevolent member who pays for servers to run, and doesn’t charge for their work to keep the servers up and running. That’s the model of the old web. When people ran forms as a hobby.
Unlike the 90’s or early 00’s the amount of bots is higher. The quality of bots is higher because of terrible tools like LLM. We are in a time when finding people on the web is going to be harder and harder.
I assume people are going to go to giant platforms like bluesky, or to discord servers, or to niche supported solutions like mastodon. None of these are a replacement to cohost.
Discord is realtimeish, meaning it doesn’t respect my time.
Bluesky is twitter 2.0, it will repeat the mistakes of twitter.
Mastadon I have complained about.
Twitter was killed by a tweet.
For now there is no site for me to go to. Which means I guess as of tomorrow, I’m offline.
Goodbye, Cohost.
