Thank you! Yes absolutely. Even during the development of my MVP, both Twitter and Reddit were... well we all know what happened. I was just shaking my head.

Even though Persumi is not meant to be a competitor to Twitter or Reddit, I can't help but think that a content creation platform without the VC drive and agenda, would probably grow into something quite different.

Yes!! We never raised VC either, and it has been 12 years… here is more info:

https://intercoin.org/overview.pdf

I remember emailing back and forth with DHH (of 37Signals/Basecamp fame) back in the day. DHH and Jason Fried were very big on this.