arborelia

cohost is my favorite place on the Internet. They aimed to be my "fourth site" and ended up as my first.

As a co-op, they are trying to do something completely different from the usual models of "billionaires own everything and turn it into shit on their random whim" or "volunteers do unpaid work for someone else's benefit until they burn out".

I bought another year of Cohost Plus (on top of the one I had going). I understand their explanation that Cohost Plus alone is not a plan to pay the rent of four people. But I want them to have more time to figure it out, so I bought more Plus. I think you should consider doing that too.

I know some people are reading cohost's latest financial post as "cohost is doomed", perhaps because they've never seen anyone be honest about the finances of a website before. It sounds to me that the site is not as doomed as every other social media website is, but it definitely does need our support.

Social media costs a lot of money, and people use it for free, so in general that doesn't add up. For a while there was one profitable social media site, and it was Facebook, and the source of their profits was video ad fraud. Once that became a bit too clear, they did a half-assed pivot to cryptocurrency and then to VR and they're back to losing gobs of money I don't know finances of enormous companies are confusing. In general, an era of bonkers free money from VCs is ending and it's hitting every service we use.

This site has a plan for sustainable social media that doesn't involve fraud, and it's not an easy plan, but part of the plan is that they're building a site people like to use that the users can pay for.

Please, if you're able, buy a Cohost Plus subscription. I love this site and it's the only social media site where I feel at home right now. I think there is a world where it's a sustainable website, and more people subscribing to Cohost Plus would be a big part of it becoming sustainable.

I tried to check cohost on my laptop. It went to the login page. Instead of unlocking my password manager and logging in, I got distracted.

Five minutes later I checked cohost again. I was logged in.

The random logouts are more temporary than I expected

I made an iPhone home screen shortcut for cohost.

Where is the back button in this interface

How do you go back from, like, one post’s comments to the rest of the posts

in Safari the back button is on the sometimes visible toolbar under the URL box. it’s never visible when launched from a home screen shortcut