Welp I probably be here till the light go out.

It’s a shame this place couldn’t make it. I’ve been on online for the majority of my life at this point and it definitely feels like I don’t know what my relationship to online is going to be going forward.

A lot of the AI data scraping and really damaged my desire to post or share anything. Even knowledge data was always the model and always bad. Everything the past few years has felt like such a more personal attack on my craft and lively hood.

Cohost definitely helped make it feel like someone was trying to do something different. It definitely feels like Web 2.0 is crumbling but I still don’t see the mass migration I saw back in the day (my space to Facebook etc). But maybe it’s just all the young people are on tik tok and that’s enough.

Anyway. I’ll really miss the follower feed and the artist alley. Definitely the best ideas of the site. The no number was genuinely good for my brain and a supper a lot of others.

I’ll do a separate where to find me post but basically.

My tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/morayforte
My twitter: @morayforte
My webcomic: http://dumplingtheeternal.com/comic/cover-page

Need to follow my mutuals I made here elsewhere and more people to follow on PF in general, drop ur pillowfort or other socials below :)

Umm, while I'm throwing ideas out there: I might make a small-ish¹ discord server with a focus of sharing art and creativity/oc things because there's a whooole bunch of artists here I liked seeing updates from every few days and I know not everyone is going to be on the same platforms anymore.

So this is an open call to anyone who has interacted with my art, or I've interacted with your art, and you would be interested in something like that to keep in touch with other artists ² you've seen around on cohost.

1. small-ish in that we don't have to be mutuals, or even have directly spoken, but I'd like to keep it loosely contained to people who have seen/interacted with each other's posts on cohost on a regular basis. Because large discord communities quickly get overwhelming and hard to communicate in.

2. Doesn't have to be visual art either. It can be writing or music or photography or game dev. Just a general-purpose creative community. Thinking about people like me who just kind of do creative stuff as a fun hobby rather than a job so there'd be no pressure to, like, network or sell services or anything like that.

Never even ended up postin' enough to finish my introduction post, but I'm glad I was recommended CoHost and found a lot of really interestin' and cool people through it, even if I was mostly a resident lurker. I'm gonna be tryin' out Pillowfort as an alternative, where I'll hopefully lurk a li'l less. Eventually.

I'm gonna be sad to see CoHost go, it was a nice space to be able to see creatives and find people talkin' about the things I'm interested in, even small things here and there like findin' TTRPGs I'd never find otherwise, seein' people improve and grow at their hobbies, and discoverin' a trove on streamers who I now watch regularly.

Hopin' that if I don't end up joinin' the same websites those people move to or are active on already, I'll eventually see 'em again anyway at some point.