The death of #cohost hit me considerably harder than I anticipated. Losing the one place you feel you could be yourself is... agonising. It's miserable. I loved that eggbug, and it has forever changed me.
I've been re-evaluating my space on social media in general. I've learnt a few things.
1. Microblogging sucks
2. It's better to have a few good friends who actually talk to you instead of shouting into the void (followers or not) and having randos respond.
3. Good faith, equal footing back and forth discussion is the soul of community.
4. It's easy to make friends if everyone just talks to each other! People love friends!
5. You have to ban racists/bigots immediately, and scorched earth policy is necessary.
..and I noticed "Man, Mastodon sucks at all of those". I planned to just leave.
But just to be sure, I'm going to try to move to a smaller instance with longer posts lengths. I'll be at @crystallord for the time being while I mourn a bit about cohost.