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by undersuit 1076 days ago
Great idea I think we can fund teachers and provide a simple social media site for all.

Think about why this would be incredibly difficult and resource heavy? The US social media site doesn't have to try and serve video reliably while threading in ads to make a profit. Sure people can try to upload video in plain text and create their own clients to ingest it, like I said "Open up the API and let people layer their own engagements on top of it."

It's an infrastructure project, like national highway or the internet.