cohost.org
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Cohost was a social networking site built by Anti Software Software Club, LLC. Its objective was to provide a platform with no ads, only a chronological feed and a plan for a subscription model to support the site.[1][2]
Shutdown
ASSC announced on September 9th, 2024 that cohost would be shut down at the end of 2024 after going read-only on October 1st.[3] Users had the next few weeks to coordinate their relocation plans. Data exports became available starting in October,[4] and the site eventually went offline in January 2025.[5] In the time between, ASSC coordinated with the Internet Archive team to archive many of Cohost's public pages on the Wayback Machine in a dedicated mass archival effort that spanned from November 2, 2024 to January 10, 2025.[6]
Blogposts and related projects:
- Going out on your own terms - Theresa O’Connor
- RuSShdown: an RSS feed generator
IndieWeb Support
- Twitter thread (Nitter version, archived):
- "we can confirm that we have RSS on our roadmap.
we can't make any commitments regarding IndieWeb right now, though we're not opposed in principle, just not plugged in to the community yet!" @cohost_org June 30, 2022
- "we can confirm that we have RSS on our roadmap.
Avoiding Federation
- Reasoning for avoiding federation:
- "the big one is that we have a bunch of friends who have had to pull up stakes on the fediverse and recreate on other instances because there was mod beef involving their instance that got it defederated so suddenly they were completely invisible to anyone who didn't follow them" @vogon June 28, 2022
Criticism
- Poorly drafted Terms of Service (twitter thread by @rahaeli, thread reader version)
- a post about why the model might fail with historic context to npm