[crawfordcomeaux]

This is a limiting belief. I no longer choose to hold such beliefs because they engage cognitive biases away from imagining ways it can happen.

I hypothesize an approach oriented around human needs can be immediately valuable and can grow in value for an individual user, even if they never connect to another user. Even if I haven't yet imagined it.

Choosing my beliefs intentionally is a skill I developed on my own and think a social app that simultaneously taught such a useful skill might be something people choose to learn. I've cultivated a set of skills I use to stay sane in the face of a weird world where accurately judging what's true is getting harder. I bet others could benefit from learning how to not be gaslit by politicians, for example. I think an app teaching such skills would go viral and spread as long as it remained useful.

[rorykoehler]

Lots of people are heavy on beliefs and light on reality these days. I prefer to stay grounded and to study actual real world phenomena instead. It's better to use the best proven tools and methods to enact the change you want to see than to swim upstream with ineffective methods because reality makes you feel uncomfortable.