...features. Upon last update, MiserablePileofWords and CaffeinatedOtter had developed substantial amounts of export ready code to add to the Cohost.Py.... thing. Someone left a comment explaining what this thing is and I still didn't get it clearly, so assume that's an element at play here. Look at the thread here CLICK ME to see what's been put out publicly so far. If you're an author, the tools should be ready to go for you if you can fix some coding typos I'm told ship with the cohost.py download.

I believe what may be on the feature list for implementation is pictures, hinted at extracting comments too. I'll check in with them today to see how things are going since it's been a minute due to me being sick AF with a lovely sinus infection. Once these tools are done and I have a chance to trial them, it'll be time to do a biiiiig push to get them available and handy for people. I also wanna talk to my peeps about some kind of easier to use format for laymen as right now it's a bit technical and hands on to implement for me. I'm told the existing updates as-is are more than functional.

Explaining my paranoia about Cohost is something that has brought up a few salty interactions with the community on my Main Account, and I still have some last legs to do on research to fully explain myself. But, if you're familiar with how Tumblr went, you should be reading the room on the broader picture of web 2.0 collapse and be skeptical of social media organizations that communicate infrequently and inconsistently. A famous example is how Furaffinity.net got acquired by IMVU and it is owed entirely to Dragoneer's personal finances and foolish desire to return to owning the site that it didn't get murdered by policy changes in payment processors just yet.

I hope Cohost lasts, it has to be said because people mistake skepticism for doomerism. Concerns about the structure of the company, how it interacts with regulators and tax authorities, and the broader picture of Queer Erasure online should have you ensuring you have lifeboats for if and/or when the ship unexpectedly sinks.

Ratgirl Isekai will resume shortly, as will routine shitposting and other thoughts, but I wanted to get that out. Love.

I don't want this to be a call-out post, this is probably just one of many similarly-styled calls to action to support Cohost, it's fine, this is fine actually. I think OP is genuinely hopeful things are going to work out, and that's not the worst thing ever. However, you probably should not be so quick to go balls-deep into this idea of a full month of exclusive posting to Cohost the fruits of your labor, and the why is worth your time.

Small Update on Mar 18th before end of day: Investigating the specifics of what is and is not a COOP in the United States has made Washington State Law an odd anomaly. Cohost... has a few anomalous traits that we might need real law people to get into.

In Basic Terms:
An Article has been penned recently about Cohost's dismal financial state of affairs^[1], one I would recommend. The author estimated that around 2022 June, that Cohost/ASSC was already about $500,000 in the red and with the more recent updates in mind I do not think Cohost will last six whole months. When the Cohost Staff were looking at "Early April" as a shut-down date^[2], they had less than six whole weeks. I just don't see the math here.

I want people to also Consider that ASSC's mission statement^[3], structure as a company, and investment approach while phrased as more indie are actually just... traditional. They're not a Coop, ASSC is a 3-founder LLC^[4]. They're not a Non-Profit, they are a "Not For Profit" Company^[5], aka, a for-profit company that is eating costs but really doesn't have a public-service agenda. They're not free of the traditional hazards of funding pitfalls, they literally signed away the company's IP and code base to their principle benefactor and then somehow neglected affairs so badly the benefactor went radio silent for an entire month!? How do they expect $20k in funds to stretch six months^[6]? I do want to keep that in mind, they list 'offers' which sounds like an acquisition and there's more chatter in their last update that suggests a pivot to reality. We'll see.

But let's assess the situation in terms of responsible business practices. I have three words to summate the above: Suspicious. Idiotic. Misleading. I have my opinion laid out with I think reasonable citations above, below is what I personally have concluded for myself. You might find that indeed, looking into Archival Tools provided by Cohost community members^[7] might in fact be a good idea. Thanks to CaffeinatedOtter and MiserablePileOfWords, who worked on this tool that integrates with Cohost.py; full disclosure they're two fellow short-story writers I really like.

Citations, Prescriptions, and more below the break.