Blogging?! And RIP Cohost
I can't publish a header image yet. Ah, well.
Until earlier this week I was in a website called Cohost. I mean, I technically still am, but it only exists on a read-only mode, no more posting in there, and it's set to close for good next year.
I can say I'll miss that site a little. Of course, as any social media platform it had a very, very toxic side to it, without mentioning the finantial and moderation issues which I won't discuss here, but I found it to be a neat space anyway. You could find posts about the most specific stuff in there, and at least from my experience, a lot of people showed genuine interest in the things you'd talk about, which would lead to some pleasant interactions occasionally. That doesn't always happen in other sites, in my experience anyway. Cohost had pros and a lot of cons, and ultimately it proved itself to be a non-sustainable experiment with a very dedicated userbase that often made the experience worthwhile. (Really, I'm being charitable and glossing over stuff here cause my point is not to get in the weeds of why the site didn't work and everything staff and users did wrong.)
My favorite thing in using Cohost was to occasionally make the longer post. The reason I joined in the first place was that I wanted to force myself to write more, starting small by doing something like a media log. Eventually I dropped that idea (it's boring!), even though I still go back and forth between wanting to be A Writer and just not caring about any of that (I'm currently at the latter), and just started using my account to talk to people and find out about a bunch of cool stuff. I never made any super long post, but just being able to say everything I like about a game or whatever without breaking it up in a thread format was good. And that takes us to this blog.
The reason why I chose Cohost in the first place was that it was easier than creating a website, it just gave you all the tools you needed. And websites feel important, you need to have a point if you're bothering to make a post. That's why I tried and failed a couple of times to be consistent with a blog, until I realized I don't need to. What's stopping me from just making a two-paragraph post about, say, Simoun, like I did on Cohost? And that's why I'm here now that the website is essentially dead. If I ever feel like making a slightly longer post than I'd make on Twitter or Bluesky, this is where it goes.
And to be honest I'm pretty tired of the Twitter/Bluesky format to begin with. I think I'm mostly using it to keep in touch with people (and inertia) at this point, so I do hope I can get used enough to posting here at least a couple times a month. You can still find me in those places, but I don't know if I want to spend that much time in them anymore, you know?
That said, no idea what kind of posts I'll make, or the frequency with which I'll feel like writing. I don't even know what language I'll post in — I'm doing this one in English for consistency's sake, cause I know some people in Cohost are doing the blog thing and I posted in English there, but I prefer writing in Portuguese, to be honest. Whatever the case, I will make an effort even if nobody reads it, that I can promise.
That's more or less the gist of it. This thing has no comments so you can contact me personally about whatever I say here, and I'd actually really like that. I assume everybody who's possibly going to read this already has all my info, but in any case I'll update the main page with some contact places later. I'm not removing the Casshern lyrics though.