Cohost end
Sep. 12th, 2024 08:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beige_alertIt's sad to see cohost shutting down. Looking back there's lots of people I saw in the past who drifted away as is usual, but having a date when everyone is cut off is different. So many people who were a nice little part of my life with their funny posts or their long thoughtful posts, all the funny interactions some people had with each other, all coming to an end.
I'll see some people elsewhere, I already have for people who have also been active in fediland. But some people are just going to vanish from my life. Which, again, happens, just now a bunch all at once.
Even the end is a cohost end, orderly in a way I don't think I've seen before. A date to go read-only set weeks in advance, an interval to download archives, a plan to make that easier. Time to do some last posts, some goodbyes, to give out contact information, time to set up accounts elsewhere and give out links, if you don't have other places yet.
The great twitter-musking, when for a while it was quite unclear if the site would keep running, was a whole different thing. And of course lots of sites over the years have been just abruptly shut down. Or, everyone I knew on Livejournal back in the day left the site ages ago but the site lingers on, still sending me e-mail reminders now and then.
At some point I'm gonna sit down and cry, now that I'm on estrogen I get to feel emotions. In fact I started estrogen a couple months after joining cohost, it's overlapped a really significant era in my transition.
I'll see some people elsewhere, I already have for people who have also been active in fediland. But some people are just going to vanish from my life. Which, again, happens, just now a bunch all at once.
Even the end is a cohost end, orderly in a way I don't think I've seen before. A date to go read-only set weeks in advance, an interval to download archives, a plan to make that easier. Time to do some last posts, some goodbyes, to give out contact information, time to set up accounts elsewhere and give out links, if you don't have other places yet.
The great twitter-musking, when for a while it was quite unclear if the site would keep running, was a whole different thing. And of course lots of sites over the years have been just abruptly shut down. Or, everyone I knew on Livejournal back in the day left the site ages ago but the site lingers on, still sending me e-mail reminders now and then.
At some point I'm gonna sit down and cry, now that I'm on estrogen I get to feel emotions. In fact I started estrogen a couple months after joining cohost, it's overlapped a really significant era in my transition.
