Wait what is this talk about cohost shutting down? I don't understand

Since when? What's going on with the website? When does it shutdown? Where can I find this information?

People sound so dramatic too.. did something bad happen to make the site shutdown??

I don't get it

It's sad to see this site go, I kinda wish I used it a bit more but I guess it's a little late for that.

If anyone wants to follow me elsewhere here are other sites I'm active on

Fedi: https://wetdry.world/@Vixcitement
Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/vixcitement
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/vixcitement.bsky.social
Twitter: https://x.com/Venomfan96

i am genuinely very saddened that cohost is going down. i always meant to spend more time and voice more thoughts here, but i was too shy. twitter and tumblr feel too hostile, too focused on advertising and enemy-making. not many people i know are active on mastodon or bsky, and they also feel more "granular" to navigate, more overwhelming and "rabbit-hole-ish". i don't really know anyone here personally either, but cohost was always a site that i appreciated the culture of and wanted to dig into more. it felt like a site that could be home, if i decided to get really into social media as a personal user again. the art i was exposed to here was so avant-garde, intellectually stimulating, and inventive in a way that i don't see as much on twitter or tumblr.

i always got so much support and interaction on my art from you all. i might be one of the most visible indigenous people on cohost, which is a weird feeling, but i'm so grateful for the platform i had here and for everyone's appreciation of my art while we've all been here.

i don't know what's going to replace cohost as a place where i feel i can be myself, if i ever decide to share more of "myself" with public social media again. maybe an individual blog with RSS compatibility, maybe a personal mastodon or other fedi thing. is there a place that people are gravitating toward in specific? let me know where you're all going esp if we're mutuals or we've talked before!

thanks for being neat, cohost. i hope i can find another place online with a culture like this someday, and be confident enough in myself to actually take advantage of it while it thrives. i will reblog this or make another post with where i intend to be the most, like.. invested. in the meantime my current links are all in my bio and pinned post and such