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A social media site that runs on subdomains. So you have your own subdomain like a website, such that the site would be called freedom.com and your "profile" would be anonsprofile.freedom.com instead of your profile being on a page like facbook.com/anonsprofile this way everyone is totally responsible for the content on their own site the same way you are responsible for the content on your site if you own any .com subdomain. You charge $1 a month and don't track anyone or display any ads. Instead of the ceo being worth 100billion dollars he would be worth like ten million and there would be no shareholders. Almost all the programmers and expense of running facebook is catering to tracking and displaying ads and figuring out who you are as a person or billing. Eliminate all that and all those jobs and all moderation as people have their own subdomains and it's not your problem.

no tracking, no ads, no fucks given by the ownerships, no shareholders. Make money by charging money instead of spying on people and advertising to them. When people pay maybe give them the option "do you want to pay $3 a month instead of 1 and sponsor 2 poorfags so you can virtue signal about how nice you are" a lot of people would probably do it

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keybase.pub/matt_ryan/
keybase.pub/ivanthetroll/index.html
twitter.com/AnonBabble

oh and also the eco would get the benefit of taking down facbook and waging a war on big tech and tracking, thus making him happy and giving meaning to his life in exchange for not being a billionaire

Do it fageot. Begin production at once.

obviously i have been thinking about it a lot but it's hard to bring a dream to actual fruition

so, something like neocities? or do you have some interesting ideas that would make it unique?

the interesting idea is no tracking at all and no meta profile about you, if you delete your subdomain it's gone forever along with all data you hosted there. Some big ass company is not going to keep track of what time you go to bed every night and who all your friends are and how many times you view your exgfs profile, no keeping track of what health issues you have so meds can be advertised to you etc..

and you can post anything you want without moderation, you can express yourself in any way you see fit. If you are doing illegal shit the cops will have to deal with you just like if you had your own regular website

reminder facebook is banning people for posting pics of frogs now

sounds cool, but I doubt anyone will use it
most people do not care about privacy

Wow dude! Really cool idea!
Sike! It sucks for really obvious reasons!

that's not a bad thing though

You can still earn with advertisements, just not personolized ones, silly.

*learn to type. Plus the domain thing isn't new, but cool. 9/10

but why? why not just charge a small fee and be done with it? if netflix can stream you 50gb of licensed data for $9 a month and still pay the copyright holders and in addition make billions of dollars you can imagine what bandwidth and hosting must actually cost. I bet you would not even have to charge a dollar, you could probably charge 20cents and tell people for a dollar a month they could sponsor 4 random other people. After awhile you could have it be effectively free for most people.

I would like a nice big site with zero ads

I think someday there will be some huge backlash against the current trend of these big sites demanding to know everything about you, something will happen to turn the tide so that even normies care.

why would people come to your "social media" platform and not just build a personal website? will you have tools to make making a website as easy as creating a facebook profile? Also, how would people interact with each other?

you would have to have some kind of pre setup hosting agreement so that when they made their profile they were taken to an integrated site builder such as a shopify like vehicle or hosted wordpress. This can be made just as easy to fill out as a facebook profile. Go to shopify and do the trial if you don't believe me.

People would come because that template would be standardized and overall they would know what they are getting. It's harder to set up your own personal website because you have so many options for hosting and frameworks etc, this would just do almost all of it for you and it would all be the same (if you wanted the basic template) and there would be easy to follow tutorials. People would interact with each other similar to facebook, the mechanics would have to be worked out but there is no reason you could not have a place to copy and paste other peoples subdomain in a friends type list and have them shown on your site.

How is this different from
diasporafoundation.org/

>subdomain
i don't think you understand what a subdomain means

while its a great idea, and i would probably use it, i dont think it would work, normal people dont care about privacy and dont care about megacorporations stealing their data, and i dont think they would like to pay for social media

dunno never used it

many people can have the same name

should start doing the same here

>A social media site
dropped

the problem is mass-adoption desu. without millions of ppl and a smattering of celebs it won't go anywhere, even if it's super well done.

How does it compare to mastodon or "the fediverse"?

Who says we would want everyone on it?
The internet was better when only smart people knew how to use it.

Ops idea is neither smart nor do you have to be smart to setup a website, cringe thread

This literally just sounds like a herokuapp/neocities/etc?

Anyways it would probably work.

you're underestimating the depths of idiocy that exist in the world

This is what underage future dropouts actually believe

This, and diaspora did this 10 years ago, with not so great results i must say.

also

The Social media era is over, we don't need more of this cancer.

>The Social media era is over, we don't need more of this cancer.
facebook stock is right at an all-time high

market cap: $500,000,000,000

You have to be 18+ to use this website

Stock Smoke

emarketer.com/content/average-social-media-time-spent

cnet.com/news/facebook-lost-15-million-us-users-in-the-past-two-years-report-says/

>Make money
don't need another loser trying to be the next friendster, myspace, facebook.
you'll either die in irrelevancy or become what you once feared.

we literally do need another unless you like ebooks monopoly

I was thinking of a similar idea where users are just users on linux box with the right permissions. example a group could all have append only access to a file and a little script would check the modify tijme on the file and alert the users in the group.

What made me think of this idea is keybase.io has a feature where you have a remoter location which acts like a local folder. It's funny, you can actually use that location to host a static html file. Just checked, it's different now but still kind of works. keybase.pub/matt_ryan/

A better example than hello World

keybase.pub/ivanthetroll/index.html

I would like to add, if eveybody had such a space online, we could follow eachother with an rss type mechanism and get an unfiltered stream of the content we want, as oppesed to a stream manipulated by some pozzed tranny at Twitter HQ.

Not OP, but I like this general idea. Is it similar to the concept of databases structured like a files system?

>why not just charge a small fee and be done with it?

Because people will never take out their credit card when free alternatives exist

people pay for porn

>the interesting idea is no tracking at all and no meta profile about you, if you delete your subdomain it's gone forever along with all data you hosted there. Some big ass company is not
You do realize that all of the big ass companies will just scrap the website if it every got popular, right?

I think one of the biggest existential problems facing the web as we know it is the concentration of "Service providers". It is extremely counter to the ideal of the decentralized web. We truly need a stallman figure to dedicate his life and free(libre) the web x.x that were are currently in, which consist of a handful of "services".

I think there is atleast wo ways to sidestep the payment issue.
First: You cold use a donation model, questionable.
Second: 99% of people using these social network services require resources that could be delivered on a raspi using their home internet connection. Self hosting solves the cost issue with the added benefit of providing privacy, and if the user wishes the should be able to pay someone to host for them.

They would have access to the things you wish to be made public already and encrypt the comms you wish to be private. If it is hosted on their server you have no choice. They have their way with all you data.

You mean like Tumblr? Or at least the way they used to do it.

Pros: very good idea, better than all forms of social media

Cons: I don't envision people willing to pay for social media unless you offered a way to buy followers and likes. I don't even want to pay for the Jow Forums pass. As someone mentioned earlier, you can still run ads, just not personalized ones. I recommend including a free-with-ads option. Or have a similar funding option as Patreon/Twitch/et al where subscribers and fans contribute financially to the content creators of their choice.

>Tumblr

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Although it sounds good on paper it has several flaws. If i understand this correctly everyone gets their own site (ish).

0. It's going to be more inconsistent the more freedom the user has. Inconsistency makes it harder to access the content you want and effectively browse the site.

1. How the fuck would you be able to bring this to the mobile market? The current web on mobile sucks, not to mention trying to create a site from a phone.

If you want to get a successful social media you need users, and skipping the mobile market will lose you tons of users. Another thread here showed that 58% of zoomers owns a computer (something along those lines). Those are the primary users of social media. I don't think a social media can't be very successful without an app today.

2. People won't pay for social media. In addition there's tons of underage users which won't be able to use the site (some might see this as an upside though).

A pay wall will keep users out, this is especially bad when the content itself is created by the users (social media and streaming sites). In games for example a paywall isn't as bad because they don't need (as many) users to make it enjoyable, unlike social media where the content is the other users.

3. People don't care or can't make their own website. Your site will be way too advanced for most users. Most users just want to look at other people's food and selfies without a hassle those needs are already filled by current social media.

4. People doesn't care about tracking/privacy. If that were the case no one would use the current popular social media platforms. If you want popularity then selling user data and skipping the payments is sadly more effective.

It's a great site for powerusers, but won't take off because so few people are powerusers

I've actually never had or used tumblr. However, their profiles are in the format OP talked about e.g. Jow Forums.tumblr.com

> you got an idea
> most anons say it's great
> still you too lazy to do it
get your ass of Jow Forums and fucking do it. It isn't even that much work to get it going. Sure you will need some time to get it all perfectly working but you could start testing in like a week

>If you are doing illegal shit the cops will have to deal with you just like if you had your own regular website
That's not how it works and if you ever do this this will be the reason why you won't last half a year at most. Enjoy getting CAD letters shit all over you until you drown in them.

These are good points, there would have to be some kind of consistency or everything would be like myspace was with every profile being glaringly different and off-putting, it's not impossible though just have a main page theme everyone is supposed to use that comes with the remade website template in the builder. As far as having a hard paywall, maybe something could be done like having it be free with premium features if you pay. The free site could be very basic without the ability to host videos on the server and half a gig of space or something.

sure it does, do they send CAD letters to the .com people at verisign?

no

Exactly, tumblr already does this
you get a profile like

myprofile.tumblr.com

and you can change the html/css/js of the page however you like