Discussion: A better social media, one created by the community, for the community.

Every social media platform is pretty much compromised now. Considering the amount of talent and community we have on Reddit, we can pretty much chip in and create a new social media.

The platforms we commonly use are influencing certain ideologies, or tinkering the algorithm to show propaganda, or blocking/removing content which goes against agenda, or worse full of brainrot AI, misinformation, bots etc and finally they sell our private data to everyone and anyone.

We’ve people here who can pretty much do everything and anything that is required to develop such a platform. We’ve Software Developers, Database Developers, Data Scientists, Cyber Security Experts, Graphic Designers, ML Engineers. We’ve people who have expertise in HR, Marketing, Finance, Startup Management, Business Strategy. We’ve a community from every corner of the planet, and we’ve unlimited open source tools that we can use, and if everyone is involved in it voluntarily, there are no high costs, even if we get to technical costs, they can then also be crowdfunded and covered.

We can involve the people in the project early on, and see what kind of features they’d like to see. In every step of the way, the opinion of the community will be taken into consideration. The content, the design and technical aspect everything will be shared and documented for everyone to see publicly.

We don’t have to rely on mega tech lords for anything. What they forget is, we the consumers have the power. We can create better, safer and more importantly, ethical alternatives to these products, just by being able to work with each other.

What does everyone think?