sadteaparty

probably still getting by.

i hope you're well.



Cohost's impact on my life has been somewhat indirect, but positive. It did a great deal to encourage me to reach out to people who are gracious with their thoughts and knowledge and just say thanks, which doing on other networks always felt more daunting.
I've learned the numbers really, really do suck, and I don't want anything to do with them as much as I can help it.
Mostly I've just learned to broaden my exposure to more cool stuff. And I hope the diaspora carries its energy into the RSS zone.
It did get me to write again, and although I did never become a Poster, the act itself has been cathartic and good for me. That's easy to keep up, since nobody was seeing it anyway.
It did not make me a Poster; I'm still a bit of a social network recluse. Whether or not I do end up making a spot to actually Post is an open question, but wherever it happens, there won't be numbers if I can help it.

it really was like a website in here.

thanks.



staff
@staff

also the August 2024 financial update, but I’m trying not to bury the lede.

Hi everyone,

We have come to the decision to cease operations of cohost and anti software software club due to lack of funding and burnout. As of today, none of us are being paid for our labor1; all of our money in the bank, and any money coming in from people who buy our merch or don’t cancel cohost plus, is going towards servers and operations — paying the bills so we can turn the lights off with as little disruption as possible.

cohost will become read-only on Tuesday, October 1st. At this time, we will make best-effort attempts to keep the servers online through the end of 2024.

Development focus has immediately shifted to data export. We have offered minimal data export for GDPR compliance for a while now, but this is a barebones system that doesn’t meet our quality standards. We will be improving this system over the next few weeks and will issue full data exports for all users when the site goes read-only. We will continue to offer downloads of your data export through the end of the read-only period.

When the read-only period concludes, we will delete all of your data from our servers without a backup. Even now we want to reiterate that we think “data brokerage” and other common practices of the software industry are inimical to who we are as people, and we would never consider selling your data to others or asserting any rights to stuff you posted under any circumstance.

Majority control of the cohost source code will be transferred to the person who funded the majority of our operations, as per the terms of the funding documents we signed with them; Colin and I will retain small stakes so we have some input on what happens to it, at their request.


  1. on that note, we’re looking for new jobs. we’ll each be posting about that bit individually.


sadteaparty
@sadteaparty

as someone who never had much cause to post, and probably too much anxiety, cohost was also the first place i really felt comfortable commenting, even small things. learned so much here, from so many folks i'd have never been able to encounter otherwise. my only attempt at a real post being about a dying mobage feels weirdly appropriate i guess, getting a rerun of that energy now.