Requiem for an Eggbug
I'm really gonna miss having a place to drop all my little thoughts, especially because I felt I could really say whatever since there was a nice tagging system. Just drop lots of little thoughts, sometimes indulge in something a bit more spicy.
I got to be so social too. I legitimately forgot that I used to be good at making friends, but with the global pandemic it's been hard. Cohost was a great outlet for me, I got to be social with people who were aware of reality, I didn't have to compromise. I think I'm one of the people lucky enough that a lot of the people I care about are able to talk to me via Discord now.
I'll miss the ask box, the artist alley, the followed tags feed. And they were still working on the site too, adding those inline images for posts. I know when they announced they were closing the site, I tried going back to Pillowfort, and one of the things that kinda stung was the feeling that despite all the time, the site felt like it hadn't changed at all.
I might drop some thoughts on my tumblr, but it really isn't the same. Feels like I'm standing in the middle of the rat race. People are throwing around hot takes and daily repost blogs. Just feels like everyone is trying to crowd into a spotlight and I don't feel comfortable there.
Hell I'd be off twitter entirely if I could find a good news site for my RSS feed. I feel chained to twitter because it's the only place I see people talk about Gaza and Lebanon, about covid breakthroughs like the Novavax vaccine, and about other important thing like the failings of our leaders and the climate crisis. I might be dialed in a bit too much, but I need to be somewhat aware of the world, ya know?
I still hope someday the Cohost experience will return, it wasn't perfect, no place can be, but I hope someone gets close.