Thank you so much to everyone who made me feel welcome here. Cohost healed my Twitter sickness, and made me confront the way I've been interacting with the Internet overall.
I went through a phase on here where I would see posts or comments I disagreed with, start to type up a reply that was very heated and full of assumptions about the other person... then I'd take a deep breath and delete it. Even if I was right, what was there to gain? What game was I playing, what points did it award? Did I think that if I was mean enough, I could purge the Wrong Opinion from existence? Did I want the world to work that way?
Cohost was the first place in a long time that let me slow down enough to take that perspective. It's absolutely not an exaggeration to say it changed me as a person.
I call Cohost a "place," but of course it isn't really; Cohost is a series of bits. But even more, Cohost is people. It's @amagire and @sudo-eatpant and @anschel and @doodlemancy and @punstar and @lupi and @beige-alert and @atomheart and @discodeerdiary and @sedge and @bootjack and @webster and @introdile and @staff and I'm stopping before I just read out my entire following list... but thank you all for making Cohost what it was. Thank you for your good faith and good posts and good companionship.
My new online home will be Pervocracy.com (RSS) and my other contact information is on my carrd.
Goodbye, Cohost, and once again, thank you.
