Find Your Cohost Friends

[ysabetwordsmith]

This post is especially for those folks coming to Dreamwidth from Cohost, who may wish to reconnect with other people they know from that venue.

Cohost is closing. Registration shut down on September 9 when the closure was announced. It will go read-only on October 1, 2024 and disappear entirely at the end of 2024. See "Cohost News" for more on this topic and what you can do about it. Use the "Introduction / Friending Meme" to say hello and meet new people here.

It's a good idea to make a farewell post on Cohost NOW while you still can (up through September 30, 2024). Tell people where else to find you online, whether your blog is moving or closing, and any other important details.

If you want to preserve your Cohost content, one thing you can do is save your farewell post, profile, or other pages using Wayback, Ghost, or other archive sites. This helps you and your friends remember what it looked like before it disappears. If you have art or fiction on Cohost, you may want to consider sites like AO3 that specialize in those materials. Many people are copying their Cohost content to Dreamwidth too.

Use this post to tell folks that you are on Dreamwidth, what your Cohost account was, and who you're looking for here that you knew back there. You can use the template in a comment below, on your blog, or anywhere else you find it useful. This one is shorter than the more detailed "Introduction / Friending Meme" is.


Cohost Member Connection Template

What was your Cohost account / blog(s)?
What kind of content did you post there? Will you be posting the same here?
What are some other online platforms where people can find you now?
Who were some of your Cohost friends that you hope to find on Dreamwidth or elsenet?
Do you have anything else important to share that will help networking?
 

Comments

[dismallyoriented]

What was your Cohost account / blog(s)? I was at dismallyOriented on cohost. Been using the same internet alias for a hot minute now, so. If you see another dO somewhere, that's probably me.
What kind of content did you post there? Will you be posting the same here? I did a mix of things! My most prominent public series was "Marine Science Mondays", a fairly short-lived series of effortposts about marine science facts and concepts. I also did a handful of book reviews, and posts about tabletop rpgs. One of my last big essays was a big informational post about singlet-plural relationships.
Currently the plan is after migrating all my big essays, I'll probably be doing a few more book reviews and casual posts about things I like? MSM was cool, but a lot of effort and very image-heavy, so if I opt to revive it here, it will have to use a lot more links and plaintext. I may go back to casual marine-science posting and see if people enjoy it before continuing it as a series.
What are some other online platforms where people can find you now? I'm on tumblr at in-mutual-weirdness.com, but I'm more of a reblogger than a blogger there. I'm on a handful of discord servers (Friends at the Table, Asians Represent!) and the Auldnoir forum.
Who were some of your Cohost friends that you hope to find on Dreamwidth or elsenet? Dunno! It seems like many of the people I liked seeing are either on other common platforms, or have opted to go elsewhere, but that's alright. I've been using dreamwidth's RSS feed function quite liberally to try and collate everyone into one spot for myself.

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>>My most prominent public series was "Marine Science Mondays", a fairly short-lived series of effortposts about marine science facts and concepts.<<

Marine science is fun.

>> I also did a handful of book reviews, and posts about tabletop rpgs. <<

There are various gaming communities here. For reviews, see books and book_love.

>> One of my last big essays was a big informational post about singlet-plural relationships.<<

For plural topics, see lb_lee.

>>SM was cool, but a lot of effort and very image-heavy, so if I opt to revive it here, it will have to use a lot more links and plaintext. I may go back to casual marine-science posting and see if people enjoy it before continuing it as a series.<<

You might consider casual weekly posts and links to marine science news, with monthly or occasional anchor posts that are more intensive. Science Daily has a Sea Life subtopic.

>>I've been using dreamwidth's RSS feed function quite liberally to try and collate everyone into one spot for myself.<<

Might you consider posting about that here? I've been making informative posts on various topics, but it's better to get them from people who are doing the thing when possible.