while life conspired to make this one of the toughest months in recent history for me, i wasn’t able to do the little retrospective i had hoped.
but, seeing these final posts, looking at the discord communities, at the new people in my friends list, i can’t help but love what happened here.
in a way, the ending of cohost galvanized the creation and formation of what had previously been nebulous communities. from a new standard for federation/federated instances at the writing league, to just small communities i had never actually had the impetus to join.
i’ll do it later
this had prevented me from really reaching out to communities i had looked at from afar. and now that i know i will only see people from this community if i engage in these places i had always been interested in, i feel hopeful in a way i had a hard time feeling on sept 9th.
it’s @669 on the final day and while my heart will always carry the scars and small gaps left by cohost, it will be all the stronger for it. i’ll miss you, choster i saw in passing. i’ll miss you artist i didn’t get the chance to see. i’ll miss you meme that feels like community.
we did our besht and i think we are better for it.