I've been on cohost a bit over a year, and I have to say: Cohost is a place that felt special to me most of the time I was on it. It took me a little while of playing around and searching for folks before I realized how cool of a place Cohost was. Yes, it had some issues, but I chalk most of them up to the fact that any place where living beings reside, there are going to be issues. That is the way of free will. The thing that made Cohost cool was that while imperfect, it was a community that thrived with kindness. It was a community of folks who thrived to be creative for creativity's sake. It was people who were funny for the sake of being funny. People who organized events, made games, hosted game jams, made bots, committed CSS crimes, provided mutual aid, made music, made art, wrote stories, wrote poetry. Cohost was a community with an identity, and that identity was greatly positive. We as a community rallied around egg bug, made tools to ease folks into their own CSS crimes. This community loved to share knowledge, it loved to help folks get the resources they needed to get new skills. I loved that about this community.
I just want everyone who loved cohost like I did, to take that same energy with you when you go. Take the spirit of cooperation, teaching, and learning and bring it to whatever you do, whether it's a different Social Media site, a small webring of personal websites, or your in person friend groups. I want the folks who were on cohost to be there for the world like they were there for each other. I'll miss this place, and I'll miss any of you I don't see again, but I hope that wherever you end up, you find joy and community.
