Well, for me at least. If you're having a sunny day, great! Go otuside!

For posterity's sake, here's the old post

My "Where to find me" post was, admittedly, made in the rush of "Oh shit, it's all going down", with links to websites and stuff that I didn't know if I was entirely okay with going to. I was just scared of losing the place I connected to, and I violently sought after refuge, without truly thinking what it meant to goto the places at all.

I may have made a mistake with that part. I'm genuinely going to miss this place. This place irreversibly changed how I think a social media should and can be. It definitely had its pain issues, no doubt due to the influx of users from [bad-site] needing to probably let off steam, unfortunately taking it out on anything they could... The culture somewhat shifted in small yet noticeable places.

Of course, we know in the end, the funding nipped us all in the bud.

I do think we all share the sentiment

That this place was certainly the most interesting and truly wonderful place to just, get your t houghts out. I'm trying not to micne words here, it's just hard to believe that it's all over. I know that atleast one other person reading this feel that way too.

If there's only 1 person on the site that feels this way, then that's me, if there's no one at all that feels this way, then I'm DEAD.

I think I struggled

sometimes, even I somewhat slipped into trying to keep to the norm. Even if there was no visible following I had, I know to the end I still had a following. I just didn't wanna upset peopl;e with my opinions, and I think that mindset comes from the social media of the past. If I could regret one anything, it's that I didn't just gush about anything else sincerely than a sound chip for an age old gaming console, and that I didn't document my brief firsthand experience with ✨plurality✨, the plural community is terrifying in its discourse (I'd take scrolling through #cohost-meta at its worst over sysmed. :3c )

Where Are We Now?

So where should I go after this? For the lognest time, even before Cohost, I didn't really interact with social media.

I am a lover of things, I love Things, I love what people make, no matter the quality, as long as it has something to say for itself, I can see sincerity most of the time in what's made. I am not a little hitter, at heart, I want to love everything.

But I hate modern social media. I hate what it's done to people, even here. I hate what it's done to Myself, even. I hate the big names, and the bigger wigs doing what they can to make those places addictive and miserable.

I see people moving to Bluesky of all things, and I practically did otu of necessity to keep in touch with what those people were doing, but unfortunately it just feels like going over to a slightly less abusive partner in seeking a relationship. I won't judge anyone for going there, but it ain't it for me.

SELECT YOUR HATE TOLERANCE.
squeaky SLURS ARE FUEL

Tumblr is a tricky case. Of all places, it'd feel like I COULD mold myself there, but, it just ain't like Cohost, so it's tricky. I don't like that place's dark patterns neither, nor the apathy both the users and the owners have between each other (and a banning of a certain type of content that I think shoudl have the room for expression (within reason of a site for a large range of ages))...

BUT THE NUMBERS, MAN

The numbers, I know they're a tricky thing, these things, I know they're made to get me hooked, not just the numbers, I think numbers on their own aren't problematic, I think one thing cohosters wanted was some sort of metric on things, I think I wouldn't have minded, but I also know people would have minded, because at the end of the day, it's not really necessary, is it? we got this far without them.

I don't think I really have a place to go after this. You can still follow me at Bluesky , or Tumblr... But I don't think I may actively use these to pruge my thoughts, because one is under 300 characters, and both scare me in terms of exposure. I think I may need time before I could possibly use them.

Really, though.

I probably don't have to. I've done well just being on Discord before. Wave hi to me on the Unofficial Cohost Fan Club. That place is nice, probably the least seemingly-volatile-possibly-ready-to-explode of the servers that I've seen pop up. It's chill, so please don't be stupid. Feel free to talk to me there, if you're interested in hearing me ramble more about Things And Stuff. Maybe we can be friends.

It also just stands to reason that the fact I'm sitting here cooking up with post with unique css that the creators of the cohost had the BALLS of allowing me to put in a post that other browsers can see, with almost no limitations, is absolutely hope to see that whatever comes next in the genre of "freeform tumblrlike" that allows me to do that sort of thing. Man, I remember some of the posts people made when position:fixed was still around. Wild!

It sparked a niche subcommunity who wanted to bend the laws they were given to the fullest, for fun, and it was so amazing. If I can have Cohost Adventure 2 featuring goth eggbug doppelganger, that'd be neat. I'm gonna miss fun CSS and HTML stuff. You had jokes, Ryan Reynalds GOT TURNED INTO CARBON! You had lore, ages of posting that <span>ned across months with different ways people went about things! Goddamn, it really felt like a community to express yourself in!

I genuinely don't think I can go back to the other places. I don't think I can go anywhere.

To conclude, it's all just gonna be something I'll miss. You may catch my username on bluesky or tumblr, but I really think I'll be most active on Discord, so, my presence might not be the most prominent on The Socials:tm: anymore, not until there's something new that can fill that void of "A place to just talk full of gay nerds and being able to be A Little Silly but also Free.".

After all, this place was just posting, but better.

my own cool website

Yellow Frequencies.

So here's this thing. I struggled to make it but I pulled through, I'm an emotionally invested person with all sorts of Sad Things that hapepend to her, so of course I take it hard when the one place where I feel safe to post is pretty much gone the day after posting this.

It doesn't have rss like I want yet, and I'm teetering over the idea of having a blog on here, it's not final, it's a bit rushed, and I haven't joined the webring I've wanted to yet, and I certainly made this all between the time of cohost shutting down, and NOW, but it's finally a website that I can say that I'm happy with... almost. Thank heavens for Phantomake being how it is, makes making a static site so easy IMO. I can't wait to evolve this thing into something that I can truly express myself with.

What the heck is a moonlane club? Don't worry about it, private group of friends that hang out with each other, may become a tiny little webring of just us folk across static site hosts.

Anyways... I guess that's it.

See you later, Cohosters