Cohost?

Once upon a time, a group of people formed a software development cooperative. They would come to be known as the anti-software software club. they had a vision for a new type of social media platform - the old type. One driven not by algorithms, impressions and engagement metrics; but by community and good old-fashioned Posting. That social media platform would come to be known as Cohost.

Cohost had a lot going against it - cooperatives often do, on account of all the Capitalism stinking up the place - and its developers were a bit idealistic, perhaps even somewhat naive. But Cohost represented a corner of the web that could just be whatever its users wanted it to be, for the most part. Unfortunately, the things going against Cohost eventually overwhelmed it, and it cannot be anything to anybody anymore.

Cohost has been dead and buried for a good while now. This is all of the posts I made on the website that I thought were worth keeping around - there’s a few interesting tidbits here and there.