Happy to try out cohost. There's a lot that's appealing about this platform. The biggest question is whether I'll be able to find community here.
I've always had mixed feelings about Twitter. Some things worked okay, but the ads and algorithms were nasty things. A lot of math folks have found a mastodon server that they've joined (mathstodon.xyz) which looks potentially promising too. But I'm really hopeful that cohost can develop since it is so clean. As I'm looking into all these things, I'm wondering if cohost.org could (or does?) integrate into the Fediverse, given that the biggest potential drawback (for me) of cohost right now is (as far as I can tell) the people I tend to talk to a lot don't use it.
I want a platform that, yes, let's me find new people who have common interests and want to have good discussions. But also I want to be able to connect digitally with the people in my life. FB and Twitter both have the advantage that the people in my life actually use them. They do also enable connections to others with common interests because of their massive sizes. But other than that, of course, the corporate interest and "user as pawn" model is of course completely unavoidable, and it makes both of them extremely unsatisfying experiences. I think in some ways, Pre-EM Twitter made efforts at being a "good citizen," but it is clear that the ship is sailing in a different direction. But still, it consistently chose to fill my feed with viral, often angry, tweets from people I don't follow, because they knew that's how they make money. (As a side-note from a non-expert, I think there must be a strong parallel between corporate social media tactics and corporate "zynga-style" video game pay-to-play tactics.)
Anyway, here's hoping!