Post #714736
2026-03-18 01:48 UTC
Replies (5)
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@jacel@m.prettyshiny.org 2026-03-18 09:34
@kit a lot of the good things we still have now would not exist without the communities that came out of Livejournal. A space like that was worth trying for again, and it sucks that it turned out unsustainable.
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@spankyworks@speedlines.stctp.zone 2026-03-18 06:02
@kit I didn't use it much but I liked it when I did and I liked having a place to post longform blogs where they felt like they belonged. what makes me sad is that it was a well-intentioned project that ultimately functioned to prove that the world in which a thing like 2000s livejournal or w/e where there's just a website that does a neat thing no longer exists. the internet has changed for the worse and it is never going back and cohost proved it with its demise.
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@atax1a__dup_20645@infosec.exchange 2026-03-18 02:32
@kit we don't celebrate or laugh at it, exactly, so much as lament the inevitability of the outcome from the premises, because we had hoped for something else
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@Phorm@dragon.style 2026-03-18 01:50
@kit I think that was one of the saddest things about CoHost, honestly. Even as someone who used CoHost a WHOLE LOT, it was depressingly obvious that it wouldn't last very long. But while it was going, it felt like a better internet was possible.
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@ireneista@adhd.irenes.space 2026-03-18 01:48
@kit@sharkey.kitredgrave.net that's where we're at, too