Hi, I'm Tanzim Kazi, and this is my Cohost page. In case something happens to Twitter, this would be one of the platforms where you can find me. I post art and other stuff.

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Tanzim-Kazi
@Tanzim-Kazi

I've been wanting to draw Tanzim and Penny's band in my regular style for a long time, and I finally did it! This is honestly one of the best drawings I did of all time.

Tanzim Kazi, Penny Paliné, Jade Green, Hayden Seong, and Zahra Jameel belong to yours truly.


Tanzim-Kazi
@Tanzim-Kazi

Hearing the news about Cohost becoming read-only effective this October and closing down effective next year, I will be retiring from my Cohost account. It sucks to hear this, but at the same time, it's not really surprising for me.

Me personally, I believe that the platform is struggling to get an audience. Even back when it was there, it felt empty when I'm breezing through the platform. Some of my folks who posted there aren't really active on Cohost compared to other platforms. Aside from me posting my drawings, there isn't much activity I do here.

This account was made at the time when Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter is right around the corner. It is one of the many social media platforms that I managed, which is not really easy to do.

The popularity of BlueSky and Threads is pretty much the last nail in the coffin; once both platforms take off (more so with the former for Brazil in the wake of the Twitter ban), Cohost just couldn't stand a chance.

Anyways, this is Tanzim Kazi, over and out.

If you want to follow me on my socials, here is my Card:
https://tanzimkazi.carrd.co/#socials



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also the August 2024 financial update, but I’m trying not to bury the lede.

Hi everyone,

We have come to the decision to cease operations of cohost and anti software software club due to lack of funding and burnout. As of today, none of us are being paid for our labor1; all of our money in the bank, and any money coming in from people who buy our merch or don’t cancel cohost plus, is going towards servers and operations — paying the bills so we can turn the lights off with as little disruption as possible.

cohost will become read-only on Tuesday, October 1st. At this time, we will make best-effort attempts to keep the servers online through the end of 2024.

Development focus has immediately shifted to data export. We have offered minimal data export for GDPR compliance for a while now, but this is a barebones system that doesn’t meet our quality standards. We will be improving this system over the next few weeks and will issue full data exports for all users when the site goes read-only. We will continue to offer downloads of your data export through the end of the read-only period.

When the read-only period concludes, we will delete all of your data from our servers without a backup. Even now we want to reiterate that we think “data brokerage” and other common practices of the software industry are inimical to who we are as people, and we would never consider selling your data to others or asserting any rights to stuff you posted under any circumstance.

Majority control of the cohost source code will be transferred to the person who funded the majority of our operations, as per the terms of the funding documents we signed with them; Colin and I will retain small stakes so we have some input on what happens to it, at their request.


  1. on that note, we’re looking for new jobs. we’ll each be posting about that bit individually.



I've been wanting to draw Tanzim and Penny's band in my regular style for a long time, and I finally did it! This is honestly one of the best drawings I did of all time.

Tanzim Kazi, Penny Paliné, Jade Green, Hayden Seong, and Zahra Jameel belong to yours truly.