[3cats-in-a-coat]

Noah, sorry you're seeing lack of response here. The UI is nice, but I think the hardest problem is network effects and handling of scale. I was wondering, can't you bring your experience and input to one of the existing efforts like BlueSky, or Mastodon clients, and so on, so people see everyone is gathering around one of the solutions and can feel confident moving themselves?

In the current situation, more fragmentation only makes Twitter stronger.

[noaheverett]

I do appreciate the response and feedback. You are right, the network effect is the hardest challenge to a social platform. A way to bootstrap is to treat Glue as a "blog" or a personal website where one can post content in a stand-alone manner, while hosting it under their own domain so it feels like a personal website. I haven't really done any marketing to this effect, but I probably should.

Regarding distributed protocols: I am interested/watching those, especially the domain based handles, to see if there is a way to integrate as Glue already supports custom domains. Short answer: Yes, I'm watching to see if there are ways that fit Glue's use-case to tap into those protocols.

Glue is one app in an ecosystem of apps I'm working on under Ark (https://ark.fm): Pingly: email / calendar / team chat, Glue: social networking / blogging and a third in progress. I haven't really said what Ark is going to be as what connects all these apps is still in works and honestly is evolving as I go :)

Thank you again for your comment, cheers