The #1 thing I have to say about the Cohost announcement is:
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The #1 thing I have to say about the Cohost announcement is:
This isn't the end, this is the beginning. Not of Cohost itself, it's the end of Cohost itself, but it's the beginning of seeing them put their money where their mouth is. All the things they've been saying about what they would do if they closed, all the things their friends were saying about how they totally wouldn't close and weren't at any risk of doing so but if they did they'd handle it all right...this is the part where we see what they do, and that's the part I'm most interested in.
Do we get export tools? The ones people begged them to work on months and months ago and they said it wasn't that bad yet?
Do we get the static tombstone version of the site that they said they'd do if they were forced to close?
Do they keep their promises to not sell the site and its data? What if someone offers?
These questions have stopped being hypotheticals. They're about to happen.
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@lori In the announcement they say the static tombstone will be… a redirect to archive.org