Let Your Freak Flag Fly

[ysabetwordsmith]

Posts by Cohost users indicate that many people have found that platform especially safe and welcoming of diversity and weirdness. While Dreamwidth is not the same as Cohost, it has plenty of weird people and is more congenial than average for social media. Dreamwidth also offers a good toolkit for privacy and moderation. You can share as much or as little as you want, with control over who gets to see what you post on your blog. This makes Dreamwidth a pretty safe place. You are not alone.



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[follypersist]

if we all took one thing away from cohost let it be—for the love of god let us all comment more. tell people what you think or that you like their work more. don't be weird but do be sincere and err on the side of information. actually talking to one another, in little asynchronous ways, is the only way out of an automated algorithmic future. each time you express something to another human being, you make a foothold against the tide.

Mourning Post for Cohost

[ysabetwordsmith]

Today is the last day of posting at Cohost, before it goes read-only on October 1.  You still have a little time to make goodbye or find-me-here posts, and do any other last-minute wrapups.

Here is a place where you can share all your sad feels, nostalgia, elegies for Cohost, etc.  If you've already written some, you can copy them from your blog or just link them here if you wish.  People are writing some really lovely stuff on this topic, and it's worth sharing.

It's okay to feel bad about a platform closing.  Don't let anyone tell you that it's silly.  If it's important to you, then you have a right to mourn it.  Disenfranchised grief sucks.  You can work through it in your own way, and sometimes talking about it with sympathetic friends can help.