cohost - A less-toxic Twitter alternative?

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Logjam Sliver said:
I admit I'm a bit sad about this from a technical standpoint. I didn't use Cohost much, but from a purely software perspective it seemed to be a decently designed lightweight multimedia blog platform, like a Tumblr-lite without any extra bullshit. No fucking media players blaring the user's favorite anime OP or indie game OST when you enter a page, no glittery backgrounds or indistinguishable custom cursors or clusterfuck CSS layouts, just a nice uniform interface with a distinct but muted color scheme and just enough customizability (banner, icon, blurb) to get comfortable in. It loaded fast and was very usable, not to mention its WYSIWYG editor was a damn sight more reliable than something like Twitter's (trying to avoid widows and orphans on Twitter is fucking impossible). Just speaking of it merely as a piece of software, it felt very professional. My only real gripe was a 5MB file limit for non-paying users, which made high-res image uploads near impossible without compression.
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I agree. Additionally, I like that I get the sense they were trying to transplant early 2000s internet aesthetics (to the extent they had one: variance was much higher than the homogenous corpo slop nowadays).
 
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cohost entered read-only mode and.... nobody cared. lol. it happened two days ago:
https://archive.ph/3Y1s9

or rather it would have if they didn't fuck it up. they fixed it though and now it's definitely read-only.
https://archive.ph/rRwoz

imma be honest i just read the headline and the first sentence. rest in peace to the greatest got dam social media site on the internet
 
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You can tell who was a Cohost twat because they put "Friend of Eggbug" in their name or bio on Xitter, Bluesky, anywhere because they cannot get over their unprofitable techtroon sex pest club being taken from them. Forever mad.

Eggbug refers to the Cohost mascot, a magenta coloured fly shaped like an egg. Could be a reference to troons "cracking eggs" also.
 
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Cohost support post from 8h ago:

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archive, original
cohost dot org @cohost@mastodon.social
Our secondary funder, who has generously helped keep cohost online these last few months, has requested that we hold off on shutting down until Archive Team archival has finished. We will post an update once we have a new shutdown date.
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I wonder who is so eager to preserve the content on a dead social medium which did not have all that much users at any point?

That cohost announcement account was not active much, previous post is from a week ago to remind users that cohost was supposedly closing on Dec 31.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/PJHjv
@cohost@mastodon.social profile archive
 
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The Real Slim Shady said:
I wonder who is so eager to preserve the content on a dead social medium which did not have all that much users at any point?
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As the toot says, the autists at Archiveteam, obsessed with archiving and backing up dying websites and services, are trying to do their thing with Cohost.
This is the article they have for Cohost: L | A (current); (old snapshot)
The first post-twitter social media that was enjoyable. Such things don't last.
Official announcement: cohost to shut down at end of 2024.
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And here is Cohost listed in their Deathwatch: L | A
The Deathwatch or Watchlist is a central indicator of websites and networks that are shutting down and serves as an indicator of what happened to particular sites that shut down quickly.
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2024
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2024-10-01: Cohost, a social media site, became read-only, with best efforts to stay online through the end of 2024.
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byuuWasTaken said:
As the toot says, the autists at Archiveteam, obsessed with archiving and backing up dying websites and services, are trying to do their thing with Cohost
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The archive autists are archiving the site, that is true, but that doesn't mean Internet Archive is supporting cohost financially to stay alive. But if they are working in agreement with cohost, why keep the website alive and scrape it? It just does not make sense. I am not saying that cohost should ship the hard drives from the servers to Internet Archive because that would be a privacy disaster (and a fuckload of interesting kompromat from all the DMs between the crazy people on cohost). I am pointing out the administration of cohost can likely export all public data much easier than scraping it all with the wayback machine.
 
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The archive autists are archiving the site, that is true, but that doesn't mean Internet Archive is supporting cohost financially to stay alive. But if they are working in agreement with cohost, why keep the website alive and scrape it? It just does not make sense. I am not saying that cohost should ship the hard drives from the servers to Internet Archive because that would be a privacy disaster (and a fuckload of interesting kompromat from all the DMs between the crazy people on cohost). I am pointing out the administration of cohost can likely export all public data much easier than scraping it all with the wayback machine.
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A correction, Archive Team is separate from Internet Archive and has no affiliation. As for why the Cohost genderspecials don't just do an export on their own, they're probably just retarded. Or lazy.
 
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