Vanity: Let's Build a Bigger and Better Social Media Platform

6/11/2018 | Tenger

[tenger]

There's been a lot of talk lately about Twitter and Facebook being very unfriendly towards conservatives. What is to prevent a few people getting together and come up with a bigger and better platform for the masses?

I know GAB was created, but there are problems with that platform that many will not go on it. I was only on the site for about 2 minutes after my first log in because there was just a lot of unnecessary junk streaming by. Perhaps they've changed and adapted.

I realize this is probably a huuuuuge undertaking, but I am confident there is enough talent on this site to gather requirements, design, and implement a better platform, one that isn't offensive to half the population because of the lack of adequate filters. We bellyache about those two platforms in particular and lament that nothing else is out there. In reality there have been others that were started, but for whatever reason they never got off the ground.

As I stated on a related thread, there are already Twitter clone scripts out there that we can use as a baseline. Or we can start from the ground up.

And if you're reading this and thinking, "this can't work," instead tell us what you will do to help make it work. In other words, work with us and not against us.

A core team would develop:

• Functional requirements
• Hosting requirements
• User requirements/interface
• Realistic development timeline

at the very minimum. Go live soon with a stable platform and tweak on the fly. I think the time has come for a great social media platform that incorporates the best of the existing SM sites but doesn't compromise our values.

[yesthatjallen]

I suggested some sort of subscription model in a previous post, just as an example.

You're getting way ahead of yourself.

First you have to find the people with talent who can build such a site. That's where you have to start.

The free or subscription model is pointless to discuss until find the people to make it happen.

It's like asking, 'what color should we paint the house' when there aren't even blueprints for the house.

You can discuss things along the way while you're buidling but until you have the people assembled who can build the house the color doesn't matter.

[tenger]

Agreed. Mine was merely a response to another suggestion that I have a model all lined up before support would come. I think there's a healthy balance between building a grass roots platform, tweaking as you go to having it all laid out and then fail because of lack of "customers."

You can discuss things along the way while you're buidling but until you have the people assembled who can build the house the color doesn't matter.

The problem, though, with this is that we're not talking about paint but how it will be funded. The details are the paint color. I'm just trying to find consensus that such a platform needs to be created.