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cohost to shut down at end of 2024 (cohost.org)
submitted 2 months ago by koncertejo@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml
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We have come to the decision to cease operations of cohost and anti software software club due to lack of funding and burnout. As of today, none of us are being paid for our labor1; all of our money in the bank, and any money coming in from people who buy our merch or don’t cancel cohost plus, is going towards servers and operations — paying the bills so we can turn the lights off with as little disruption as possible.

cohost will become read-only on Tuesday, October 1st. At this time, we will make best-effort attempts to keep the servers online through the end of 2024.

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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

cohost is a social media microblogging platform

[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago

Damn...this looks really good actually. I'm sad to day I never heard of cohost until now. But I'll admit I just identify with the founder's sentiments around the tech industry, and their strict adherence to moral values around how a platform like that should interact with their users. I wish their developers all the best in looking for new work.

[–] AndreTelevise@beehaw.org 5 points 2 months ago

After reading this, it's pretty obvious that Stripe killed it by drastically changing its policy around in-site currency, which could've helped them a lot. What a shame. In the brief time I was on Cohost, I have seen a lot of interesting content over there. People were coding entire games inside of posts, something you can't do on Tumblr nowadays. And the atmosphere was much more free, untethered and welcoming.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago

I feel bad for not hearing about it until now. This looks and sounds amazing. Too bad it was killed by stripe and tight budgets.

[–] _ed@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sad to hear but probably good to cut losses - Reminded me of an old Post from earlier. Props to anyone who can make it work.

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why do I only learn about so many cool things when they shut down?

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

I was about to say something similar.

I suspect that people in their target market not being made aware of it is part of the problem that is leading them to shut down.