Damn, it sucks that cohost is shutting down. I know I didn't use it that much, but I was hoping maybe I could casually enjoy the website and have some fun interactions, using a site pseudonymously. It's sad that this place never got the chance to really take off because I feel like it had a lot to offer and really dialed back a lot of the things that made centralized social media terrible.

For better and for worse it's hard to discover people on this site. I never got to really develop a reason to stay here... I probably would have used the site more regularly. When a social media website is poorly adopted, I think it creates a slippery slope effect where more people refuse to adopt the site. I wonder if people will somehow come back to twitter, or more likely, go back to tumblr. Structurally, this website is a lot like tumblr, but the userbase is actually quite different. Even now, tumblr is an insanely hostile hell hole. It hasn't changed, so everyone here who is now deeply alienated by that tumblr culture might be hesitant.

I'm just sitting here reflecting on how to meet and grow closer to people online while still having a safe and mostly private presence. It feels like the older you get the harder it is to make friends and grow closer to others. I am a very ill person and developmentally handicapped so I live most of my life online.

at some point i'm going to need to re-organize my RSS to better fit all the cool choster blogs i'm following, but for now it's a mess

sad that cohost is going to die but even sadder that i achieved Nothing on this site. made 0 friends and 0 kind of impact and no one will care that they won't see me anymore

Cohost is about community. Cohost is about eggbug.

As a loving farewell to this wonderful webbed site and all the joy it's brought us, to the creators who put hard work into making this place, updating and maintaining it and putting so much love and serious effort into it, to the people who fostered a wonderful community here on the silly bug site, to everyone who enjoys this darn goofy zygoteinsect. What better way could there be to celebrate a community, and an eggbug? Please, come draw eggbug. Together.

You don't have to be an artist to draw eggbug. Just download the image, add your own depiction of eggbug (be creative! or don't! just do it! draw eggbug!!) and then rechost with your addition. You can add a little message for eggbug if you'd like.

Please. I want to see this canvas slowly filled with eggbugs over the final days of chosting.

Come. Take my hand. Draw eggbug. And then we will turn the lights out, and put the chairs up, and close the doors behind us on this wonderful world. Together.

i drew it with a trackball (thumb)

poorly drawn pride eggbug pog

make sure to add your own!!

big messy bug

let these eggs bug fill your heart forever