One last little thought I want to rush out the door. Don't mistake this for me saying "Cohost was always doomed to fail", what I mean is that part of the site's appeal was that no matter how many people you followed, you would eventually run out of new posts. I followed a ton of people, very active people who made their own posts and who reposted other people's posts frequently, and I don't think it ever took me much longer than 20 minutes to catch up on a full day's feed activity. After I'd done that, I'd have to... go do other things. I'd have to either go to a different website or get up out of bed and start my day.
I think remembering this is going to be useful, going forward. Cohost, for me, was a destination, an institution, somewhere I loved coming filled with people and things I enjoyed, but it was never where I LIVED, y'know? And I think a lot of different spaces have the potential to become that for a lot of different people.
