Been praying for the day it happens.
How will you fund it?
Hosting is not cheap and neither is bandwidth at the levels which would be required.
I’d love to see it happen but it’s a huge undertaking. DARPA and CIA created most of the social media that’s polluting the minds of Americans today. We don’t have their budget.
Great idea!
Then we’ll need a bunch of non-contributing freeloaders to post clickbait to it several times a day!
Oh, wait...
Patreon and Periscope used by Scott Adams and others.
The Intellectual Dark Web and their followers might use an interesting capability. Most IDW people currently on YouTube, btw
“What is to prevent a few people getting together and come up with a bigger and better platform for the masses? “
CIA backing?
That would be a nice social media platform.
so, you’re asking for help on FR to create something that would be direct competition for traffic for FR.
is that what’s happening?
You could put 1/1000th of the effort into finding a viable alternative to whatever it is that you dislike than it would take to actually reinvent the wheel that has been reinvented and copied hundreds if not thousands of times already, you’d probably find it.
There’s only like 150 of them out there, what’s one more.
Contact me, I am already well down this road in a way you need to consider
Twitter and bookface have share buttons on almost all pages, that is anther advantage they have in controlling social media’s future.
If a universal share button was adapted across net that a user customizes with all links they want and then loads as customized links button wherever they browse it would be a game changer.
Twitter and Facebook is where the fight is. Not here. Not Gab. Not some as of yet nonexistent conservative social media platform.
If you want to preach to the choir, you're fine here. If you want to reach the masses, make your voice heard on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, etc.
I have a Twitter account. Every FReeper should have a Twitter account. That's the front line. That's where President Trump wages war and wins battles.
Some neat ideas on this thread.
If you get some momentum on this, freepmail me, I may be able to assist.
YUP !
I happen to love the bulletin board pre-millennial speed and style of FreeRepublic.com.
Taking a look at the bigger picture.....
MySpace was big amongst younger people 20 and under prior to 2009.
2009 FB took off amongst 50 and under for two reasons, games and a replacement for classmates.com.
Obama reign 2008-2016 without any MSM scrutiny. Obamacare woke everyone up to a dangerous, costly DC.
Politics finally appeared on FB and twitter 2016. (By 2016, users had mastered memes on both platforms).
And most importantly, memes informed young Bernie voters of Clinton history. Democrats can blame Russians, but it was everyday Americans sharing american-made memes that educated a generation or two. And that trend continues today. Memes are very powerful in conveying a specific message because people read them whether they agree with them or not. Therefore, planting a seed......
As an example, my husband has 700 FB friends based on years of playing in various local bands as a hobby. Most of these people he barely knows. I often ask him ‘what kind of memes are you seeing from 700 friends’. He was seeing anti-trump periodically through Sep 2017. He has been seeing many pro-Trump and anti-democrat since then. We live in Ohio. In summary, social media educated many and bypassed the DC controlled message. Social media sunk Hillary and elevated Trump. Why? Because people are spreading the truth.
On a side note, FB eliminated it’s biased trending news feed. I suspect social media will try desperately to eliminate Americans from sharing truth. They know what happened in 2016 was powerful and must be stopped.
Addendum to my previous post....
While I see the news/truth advantages of social media, the disadvantages are numerous. I believe social media makes people antisocial.
As for 2016, it is because FB was the platform for sharing truth via memes etc that many people unfriended Trump supporters. Those that could not handle the truth or defend their own views had no choice but to unfriend others. BUT, you can’t unfriend everyone.
Many of us have joined mewe.com
People with the skills to build such a platform and now, because of established competition, money to promote it as a viable alternative.
A group of like-minded people created Facebook. YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal.
Facebook beat out MySpace but Youtube was almost unique in it's field. You have to take into account many factors that platforms like Facebook, Youtube, et al didn't have to contend with.
If you're serious, I would research how each social media platform was created and see if their experience can be replicated.
It can be done if you find the core talent and find funding.
If you find the talent, you can crowd source money along with private investors.