Cohost

Cohost
The Cohost logo, a purple egg with the letters C and O in it followed by the word host in purple
Screenshot
A screenshot of the Cohost profile picture page for a username named eggbug, and a cutoff post about an eggbug plush.
The profile page of eggbug, the site's mascot, in dark mode
Type of site
Social media
Founded2022
Dissolved9 September 2024 (end of registrations), 1 October 2024 (read only mode), End of 2024 (total shutdown of website, planned)
Country of originUSA
Key peopleColin Bayer, Jae Kaplan, Aidan Grealish, Kara
Employees4
URLhttps://www.cohost.org/
RegistrationClosed
Users203,805 (November 2023)
Current statusOnline (read-only)

Cohost (stylized in all lowercase letters as cohost or cohost!) is a social media website publicly launched in June 2022.[1] It is owned by a not-for-profit software company named Anti Software Software Club.[2]

On 9 September 2024, it was announced that it will enter a read-only state on 1 October 2024 and be discontinued at the end of 2024.[3] Registration was closed the day of the announcement.

  1. ^ Korn, Jennifer (2023-07-09). "Tired of Elon Musk? Here are the Twitter alternatives you should know about | CNN Business". CNN. Archived from the original on 2023-11-07. Retrieved 2024-02-08.
  2. ^ "anti software software club". anti software software club. Archived from the original on 2024-02-17. Retrieved 2024-02-08.
  3. ^ "cohost to shut down at end of 2024". cohost dot org on cohost. 2024-09-09. Retrieved 2024-09-09.