As I’m assessing my exit options, I keep remembering things on other sites that remind me of the little things here.

no notifs from shared posts

I’ve talked about this before but still it’s wild how much it makes me value the few numbers there are here. Like, the likelihood of a notification being something relevant to me and meaningful is really high on this site.

bots are opt-in

It’s probably due to both the relative smallness of cohost to other sites, and a concerted effort by staff to keep potentially malicious bot accounts off the site.

Instead, every bot account here has a face. There’s a person behind every one and it shows. They’re not intrusive and don’t try to get you to DM them to buy boner pills. It’s the small things

Feel free to add your own

Website: BootlegPotato.com
Mastodon/Fediverse: @BootlegPotato@mastodon.art
Pillowfort: www.Pillowfort.social/BootlegPotato
Cara: Cara.app/BootlegPotato

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Don't have a website?

Get started with one of these free options so that your friends and followers can find any of your social media accounts get hacked, banned, deleted, or something else happens. It doesn't have to be fancy. Just something that you can update with your current info and other people can bookmark.

Mmm.page: Really easy drag and drop website platform. No coding required.
Carrd.co: This is a "link in bio" services. No coding requires
Neocities: Small website builder in the spirit of GeoCities. Coding required.

There are other options out there as well. Blogger still exists if you don't mind using a Google service, Github has free basic website hosting if you are willing to program, and Dreamhost has a few paid Wordpress options that isn't associated with Wordpress.com's parent company. There are a bunch of services like Carrd.co and Linktree but I can't verify who is behind them. It is better to have something to start with than nothing at all.

Just spent the last hour building a mmm.page thanks to this post and can confirm it is a great way to build a site for someone who has zero experience programming.

mmm.page/transcribe if anyone wants to check it out :3 thanks for the links!

I have no idea what modern forum infrastructure or hosting options are like nowadays, but what if we all helped put together one together with threads and sections focused on some of the most popular tags?

I'm imagining a place that could be potentially a less toxic something awful or resetera. Something that carries on the spirit of this place and allows for both long form and short form posts. It probably wouldn't grow, or have the same sort of image/audio hosting, but still.

Would that be something folks would be interested in? Do you think something like that would be worth looking into?

Edit: doing research...

Edit 2: Ok it looks like there's definitely a lot of interest in something like this. In terms of hosting there appears to be a tons of options ranging from free to paid. I think later today/this week I will set up a discord for folks interested and try to organize it's channels in terms of platforms, community guidelines, and everything that a community might need discuss. Gosh, I get to put my union organizer training to good use, I guess.

Edit 3: I have created a planning discord for this!
https://discord.gg/Zgp3qCQC

Since this is a public post I have an extra step to try to verify people as actual cohost users. It's manual though, so it might take me a while to get everyone who's interested in the planning stage in.

This probably won't be my last chost, but with how inconsistent I am with social media, I'm not taking any chances. I just wanna say that I've loved my time here dearly. It's been a truly special experience.

If anyone wants to stick with me, you can always refer to my Carrd to find me elsewhere:

I'll still be semi-active on Mastodon. At some point I'll dust off my Tumblr and get that active again. It won't be the same, but at least I'll still have 2 places to be found.

If you want to chat with me or join our (mine and @Huplactose's) Discord, here's the link for that:

It's a little dusty, but we're trying to get the ball rolling.

With all that said, I hope to see at least some of you around on the other side of this. Best of luck and swell wishes to all.

Godspeed, lovelies. You will forever remain in my heart.

~GiGi