Just want folks to know, even if it's pretty quiet, Fourth Place is still active and running. It's a nice little respite in these times.

The forum's mass emailer is a shitposter, dang.

#cohost #heycohost #ripcohost
Though Cohost goes completely offline today, do not despair. The memories and friends you made there are real and still in your heart.

Fourth Place's official stance is that we will ban known bad actors ASAP and anyone who screenshots messages of our users to post them off-site with the intent to drive harassment, like Signal does.
If you would prefer a platform that takes that frankly moderate stand, feel free to join us.

Anyway this show fucking rules and you should watch it along with us over on @fourthplace.forum
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An important new emote has been added to the forum for your Friday posting

The community is split over the classic Knife vs Bat Question.
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Imagine a place you could post that's like a fourth place after posted in three other places.

What do you all want to see from a forum in 2024?

This is especially a good place to avoid the naturally toxic, metric driven setup of micro-blogging platforms like bluesky. Forums are slow and allow for better long form discussions and effortposting.
Fourth Place strives to be such a place while also being explicitly anti-capitalist.

I haven't posted too much about it here, but after Cohost closed I and few others put together @fourthplaceforum.bsky.social. if you're looking for a chill place to post and long for that classic forum experience, you're welcome there
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#HeyCohost We have a place for you if you want the classic forum experience.
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