[TulliusCicero]

> The problem is that even if you re-built that product, it would quickly get overrun by engagement optimizers. If the product is open, they'll rush in.

We need the Craigslist of friends and family social networks. A company that is just aggressively disinterested in bloat or hyper engagement.

Something where "re-sharing" doesn't exist and links are deemphasized in the UX, so it's more focused on your content (hopefully you talking about your own life, thoughts, etc.). Especially text content, with photos/videos present, but a bit deemphasized.

Absolutely no business or "influencer" pages, of course.

[vxNsr]

There is an app like that. It’s called mewe, when Facebook was being especially egregious in some privacy overreach a bunch of people I know checked it out, but we were so burned from all the other social networks that we weren’t willing to use it like we had used to use Facebook. I think that time has just passed.

[TulliusCicero]

Yeah, getting the necessary momentum is really hard.

[spacemadness]

Isn’t this just an internet forum? Or are you still interested in maintaining the social graph which brings it outside the realm of Craigslist.

[TulliusCicero]

> We need the Craigslist of friends and family social networks.