It's very cool to see so many people coming to cohost! I hope everyone enjoys to be around!

Remember, you can set your avatar as something animated, write posts and replies as long as you want, look for tags about your most wide or your most niche interests (or create new tags yourself!). Following new people is a great way to discover other nice new people. You can also commit CSS crimes, or use it to include pictures in the replies for example. Be creative! Or not! Just be yourself and have a nice time.

There are of course things lacking here. For example, one of the problems i see is that there aren't many posts (chosts) in languages other than english. I think variety in languages can only reinforce the site, as many people won't have english as their main idiom, or won't be that confident using it often, etc.

So i want to take this chance to create #El Feed Global de Cohost, an spanish version of the most popular tag in Cohost (that would be #The Cohost Global Feed). Feel free to use it if you want to chat or share something in spanish!

As Twitter continues to set itself on fire and droves of people are looking for a respite in the chaos of the modern web, signing up for new sites feels like a chore. Its exhausting being an artist online these days as major companies keep shooting themselves in the foot in a multitude of ways (that I’m not going to get into in this post) that ultimately just harm the user experience. Yet, despite all of this, cohost stays cozy.

There’s an unspoken joy that I’ve started to feel as cohost grows. With no metrics, numbers, reblogs, likes, faves, plurks, and glibglobs to distract from The Stuff You’re Looking At, its setting in that exploring cohost feels like clicking around some random website you stumbled upon by happy accident. Oh they have an About Me page? Let’s click. There’s a link to the web ring they’re a part of, do they have a directory? Click here for a random joke? I sure will! A gallery? I didn’t know this person did photography. Oh they make gifs too!
This form of web exploration, unhindered by algorithmic hellscapes, has been lost to time though I imagine it’ll resurface. The internet is becoming fractured and people are losing their patience with social media at large, but I digress.
When I go to someone’s page, I’m excited to read their bio, see if they did any cool customization to it, added cute icons or gifs, being surprised by a silly or beautiful header. I’m excited to see what they make, what they find funny, what they like to share, maybe even browse their pinned tags, see what cool CSS things they tried in their chosts.
When I browse my pinned tags I am sent down a joyous click-hole of “ooh this art is really cool” to “wow their writing is good” to “this person is on here too?! Sick!” and that joy of exploring comes back to me that felt unique to Web 1.

Cohost is not a website that gives things to you without input from you. I’m grateful for that. I’m grateful that a place finally exists that makes me excited and happy to explore. Cohost feels like an internet playground sometimes, finding beautiful and moving art one minute and then getting absolutely silly with css crimes another. Its fun here, cohost is cozy, and eggbug is SO shaped.

hmm today I will listen to Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA and Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Fortunate Son and not make any attempt to actually understand the lyrics/message of the songs.