[jasfi]

I actually had a really good idea for a social media site this month, just before Elon bought twitter. I've been working on the idea a bit, but without a strong network effect it might not go anywhere. People flocked to Twitter because of who was there.

[sph]

I have one as well. What's your killer feature?

Mine is that it is invite-only, and if you break the rules, the person that invited you and everybody else they have invited gets booted from the platform. Apart from that, the only other rule is don't be illegal, don't spam, and post whatever the hell you want.

I don't mean it to replace Twitter. It's more like a social experiment. If there are permanent social consequences to being twats, what would a social network be like? Also, given this major risk, you'd only invite people you really know or trust.

I'm still ironing out the details of this thing. We'll see if I'll ever get to build it.

[jasfi]

I'm going the way Twitter used to be going towards, that is, enforcing good social behavior. I'm specifically going to work on identifying unjustifiable hate/bullying and moderating/banning those users. That will be the killer feature, and part of that will be in the techniques to do so efficiently and justly.

Like yours, mine is also a social experiment, but I don't care if not everyone wants a place like that. I know that at the very least a lot of people do. Still, without enough users it would die.

Right now this isn't a priority for me to build, but the code could be useful for other projects too, so why not.

[antifa]

> the person that invited you and everybody else they have invited gets booted from the platform.

A less extreme/draconian version of this sounds cool

[sph]

All other social media out there is not as draconian. You should use probably that, and they have more people.

I want to test the hypothesis whether people can be nice and decent on the Internet without resorting to enforced real names and government approved access to the Web.

Mind you, you'd need to be a terrible person to be booted. Posting child porn. Inciting murder. Botting and spamming. Doxing and organising a mob. Why should terrible people to have a free pass? Why should one have a free pass for inviting a terrible person?

Again, I do not want to change the social media landscape. This would be performance art.

[unsupp0rted]

I wouldn’t invest in a network where I can be booted for the bad behavior of somebody I’ve never met.