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Cohost has been mentioned recently a couple times in Geminispace:
gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2024/5-15.gmi "Day Off" @winter <tilde.club> (2024-05-15)
offers critical opinions on cohost late in the post
gemini://midnight.pub/posts/1843 "Howdy, everyone!" @plasmon <midnight.pub> (2024-05-15)
mentions she's on cohost
https://cohost.org/plasmon @plasmon's cohort page <cohost.org>
1 month ago
gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2024/5-15.gmi
gemini://midnight.pub/posts/1843
I wrote a very long post about Cohost's finances here if you're interested: gemini://gemini.hackers.town/lori/cohostfinance.gmi · 1 month ago
gemini://gemini.hackers.town/lori/cohostfinance.gmi
Cohost is also beholden to a company that pretends not to be a company ("a software company that hates the software industry"), while nobody owns or controls the Gemini protocol.
They are already wondering what happens if (when!) cohort shuts down:
What doesn’t always stick around is internet art tied to a specific platform. (Rest in peace, Vine.) Cohost is still a work in progress, but the team is mindful of the “what-ifs”: namely, if Cohost ends up not working out, what will happen to the interactables?
Meanwhile Gemini lives forever. · 1 month ago
Seems the attraction is a CSS free for all, which enables unbound creativity, unlike boring old social media.
When Cohost first rolled out to a trusted group of friends in February 2022, posting with CSS was largely considered an exploit, and the team didn’t really address it. Full-fledged CSS crimes didn’t take off until Cohost started early access registration in June. “[Users] very quickly began to test the limits of what we had allowed to work in the post composer,” ...
I guess it's the anti-Gemini, which has no styling whatsoever. · 1 month ago
I wondered what it was, so I looked it up.
https://cohost.org "posting, but better." @cohost-editors <cohost.org> (2024)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohost "Cohost" @Wikipedia-editors <wikipedia.org> (2024-03-17)
https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/3/23288689/cohost-social-media-css-games "These ‘CSS crimes’ turn social media posts into games" @Alexis-Ong <theverge.com> (2022-08-03) · 1 month ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohost
https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/3/23288689/cohost-social-media-css-games