A Long Year - 12 Months without Cohost
It's been a long year.
I had wanted to mark the anniversary of Cohost's going read-only with a real longpost of my thoughts like I did when it was imminent, but honestly I think those of us who used it have collectively hit a similar set of feelings about it with time - it was a cool attempt at something positive, it sucks that it's gone, but I'm glad I had the time with it I did.
Cohost shifted my perspective on a lot of stuff, namely my relationship with social media and free time, and what it means to truly express yourself in a truly open forum. It was the offramp I needed to quit all but one social media site (I got too much skin in the YouTube game) and start thinking about what I want to do with my time when I don't have a plan.
It's been a long year.
But it's been long in the sense that I feel like I've sleepwalked through much less of it. My mental health as a whole hasn't been spectacular, but when I saw people foreshadowing the Cohost anniversary I was genuinely taken aback that it had only been 12 months. Surely more time had passed.
But I've been generally pretty busy doing things that interest me, better at using my evenings, and spending more of them putting thought to digital paper rather than just consuming constantly. I still have a lot more I want to do, and figure out how to motivate myself to do it, but Cohost put me on a path to detaching from those timesinks.
idk, I guess my big takeaway is that I've moved on, not just from Cohost but thanks to Cohost.
That's fucking cool.