i miss Cohost. i miss having a platform where i can type an arbitrary length of text into a box, press "Post" and then it would get displayed with reasonable styling, maybe some people would comment on it, and maybe some people would like it.
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Pretty different from cohost, but it does let you write for an arbitrary length, and is run out of an artist commune in upstate New York. It came out of invite-only beta this week. https://nnnnnnnn.co/izzzzi.html
i'm sad that providing this service to people for free did not make enough money for them to keep going. but i mean also it makes sense that it wouldn't.
a related problem, not faced by me but by people i know: the death of Tinyletter/Buttondown's generous free tier. now if you want to send some emails to some people with some thoughts your options are either paying money or cementing the position of a platform that gives money to Nazis (Subtack).
Huh I was gonna be old and suggest LiveJournal but apparently they told it to Russia? I had no idea. I did however get a super good laugh at my cringe 15 year old updates
The only social platform I used where not once did anyone try to show me a screenshot of something awful a terrible person said, they had cracked the formula for a good one of these finally
i miss having big text! i miss having *actual* moderation that was willing to kick weirdo nazis out! i miss so god damn much of cohost and it genuinely pisses me off a little bit to see people praising bluesky for being "so much better than twitter" because THERE WAS SO MUCH MORE
well from the above: "arbitrary length of text". it was a blogging platform not a microblogging platform. here is my account on it: https://cohost.org/v21 - just a different thing, you know?
the tumblr thing makes sense. just becase like you can remove the fedi character limit if you want for your instance, or use something like https://writefreely.org/ to interact with it. but i dont think theres like, a culture around that yet.
i enjoyed using cohost, but i also largely enjoy using tumblr (and still find it my fave social to use nowadays); it's a pity cohost failed cus it was a nice and more chill alternative. It felt much more like a forum rather than a social media however I'd say
oh another one that must be mentioned is that, like early tumblr (circa up to 2016), it was free for all and you could build it up w lots of custom code and customize it to a very large degree. No custom themes tho for individual blogs like tumblr did; still cool tho!
yah very much so! When news of cohost shutting down emerged, most users flocked to bsky and as a direct result there have been custom codebases you can install as plugins to hide metrics like amount of notifications and likes! I've been thinking of using those but never got around to do so 😔
Wonder if there is a way to mod this site into Cohost. There was talk of Bluesky premium adding myspace style themes/fonts as part of the paid experience
https://www.pillowfort.social is like cohost, except it does show metrics and as far as I know the CSS stuff isn't possible. But they do let you like comments and the post editor has proper GUI.
It's not very heavily trafficked. And I've not done any homework on the creators so I'm assuming it's fine?
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+ downpour embeds
Thanks for the info.
the most killer feature tho was a lack of hard metrics; the amount of reblogs and likes were completely hidden, making for a more casual atmosphere
sadly on my end i know little on html and css so im completely in the dark about the subject 😔
It's not very heavily trafficked. And I've not done any homework on the creators so I'm assuming it's fine?