i wish i could stay optimistic about cohost but i will always remember it as the website where i got harassed for weeks about fucking yinglets. the website where i could post a 80,000x80,000 image of a dog that crashed people's browsers and the bug itself never got fixed afaik. the website with all the baffling financial decisions that ultimately killed it. i'll remember the loli/cub discourse. and the racism discourse. and the OTHER racism discourse.
i'm not in a mood for remembering. i'm mostly just angry. i think a lot of this was avoidable and there are people to blame. cohost didn't have to die. and cohost slowly dying should have never taken such a huge toll on its users.
i will remember cohost as a failed social experiment of what happens if you put queer tech furries in the same space together. you don't get less infighting, you just get increasingly more specific infighting over shit that matters even less.