The Last Day of Cohost - Make what you want to see in the world
Posted 9/30/2024
I made a bit of a eulogy post for Cohost last calendar week, and I figured I'd post it here too for posterity. Thank you Cohost for inspiring so many people to create and who will continute to create once it has been sunsetted. It was a pleasure being a user and being with so many amazing people.
(The following post was posted to Cohost Sept 22nd, 2024)
many have eulogized cohost before me and probably in better words, but i wanted to have my own moment to do so also during this final week. i'll try to keep it short.
i have a creative motto since college: "make what you want to see in the world." it's been on my itch.io page since i made it all those years ago lol. i make the things that i do because i want to see them exist and be realized. it doesn't matter if someone's done it before or better than what my current skills allow, i will make what i want to make. there's a similar adage from people complacent with the current environment of media: "If you don't like it, make it yourself!" and then the same people go to piss themselves when someone, yknow, actually does it.
the staff of cohost actually went and did it and people still pissed themselves over it, but they're not who cohost was for. staff dreamed of a different kind of internet and they made it real. more than real, they made a space that people thrived in.
im upset that it's going to be over very soon, but i haven't shed any tears because anytime i scroll my feed now, it's full of people sharing their newly made blogs and websites and informing all their connections where to find them next. we're doing our best to maintain the communities and friends that we've fostered here, proving that our time at cohost was important enough that we don't want to lose the parts of it that will remain: each other.
so i implore you, go make what you want to see in the world, dream of a better internet and better/healthier interaction with social media. we can make it together because at the end of the day, cohost and staff just facilitated the grounds, it was all of us that made it special.
thank you cohost, thank you staff, thank you eggbug, thank you everyone.