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###The Cohost Global Feed

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SonicKitsune
@SonicKitsune

So that's it.

TL;DR - Go to my website. It even has RSS feeds!

I left Twitter back in early 2020 and didn't look back, as there was increasingly no reason to go back to that hellhole. I went without any social media page since then, focusing mainly on my website until I signed up an account here late 2022, on the suggestion of a friend. Now it's back to that personal website as I have no current intent to make an account on any other social media site, as I don't find any that I've heard of (including Bluesky, Mastodon or any of its smaller instances, and the usual corporate mainstays) appealing.

At the moment I'll still be findable on my website but also on other things I'd set up before like Steam and Discord (though if you find me there, I'd better be able to recognize you easily, or else I'll just assume you're a scammer) I'm just not likely to set up any other accounts elsewhere any time soon. I do also have a general email at sonickitsune [at] protonmail [dot] com for those who still use email for things other than account logins and newsletters and junk.

As for website plans, I'll look into setting up a browsable archive on my site for stuff I've posted here. By past experience I was already backing up my post contents in anticipation of this exact thing, though it seems like they have a plan to have an archive format of their own. I'm also expecting to do my usual things there like music and game reviews and rants about random things, and eventually set up other pages like the long-coming Twitter archive as well, probably would be after the Cohost one. I may also continue my Starfield posts on the review blog as I work through the remaining stuff in the game while I still have Game Pass and backport the ones from here onto there.

As far as my own plans with the remaining days of this site, I'll get a text file open and write down info on who I'd like to follow that I'd found here, provided I ever end up on any other social media thing down the line. And that's it. No more posts as I focus on making my website more active. However I will fix up some older CSS posts to work in both light/dark mode like this one and pin some of my favorites and also see who's left until I end up away on a trip before the site freeze.

chillin
@chillin

In lieu of recent events

Just under a year ago, I was half-asleep in a Tim Hortons scrolling through Cohost on my phone when the financial update released for that month. As it consistently isn't, the website wasn't turning a profit. Then, I knew Cohost wouldn't last, but I was hoping it would last just a little longer. I didn't know how much longer I was hoping it'd last until, but I knew it was past 2024.

I will miss experimental social media known has Cohost. From its anti-analytics design to its anti-corporate mentality to the pure existence of CSS crimes, no other social media currently out there can offer an adequate alternative. Cohost felt good to use, and even if another social media comes along, boasting what Cohost has, I'll probably not jump ship to there. If a website like that exists, either it, too, is a ship that will sink in due time, or it'll compromise on what made Cohost so good in order to turn a profit.

Cohost was genuinely the only social media I liked posting on. I secondarily post to Tumblr and Bluesky because more people—notably my friends—are there, sure, but Cohost was my primary posting place. With Cohost shutting down, I'm probably not going to just resume what I was doing here on other social media, because jumping ship to Tumblr or Bluesky or even Twitter would be a downgrade that I don't have to subject myself to.

Until this website goes read-only, I'll still be posting. I have a few draft shares/rebugs/rechosts/cochosts I still want to post, in the interest of keeping Cohost feeling fun, despite the feeling of dread looming over everyone here. If you want to find me on Tumblr or Bluesky, I'm there, but they're not Cohost.

It's burning itself in there now, but come 2025, there'll be an Eggbug-shaped hole in my heart, where this website I loved once lived.