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I can see fragmentation of social media landscape, because children and teenagers will want to have their socials anyway so they will start using smaller and smaller providers or they will be forced to create their own microsocial networks.

It might be a business opportunity to have something ready and then sell teens white label application for small fee of server hosting. Or they can go even further and have it P2P decentralized like bitchat.

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> It might be a business opportunity to have something ready and then sell teens white label application for small fee of server hosting.

Jeez, you know we want our children to get away from this crap to begin with. Many parents are talking about reducing their kids social media exposure and want more friction to access.

You sound like the school yard drug dealer.

I mean isn't an elegant way how to bypass this regulation - teenagers running their own social networks only with their friends? If you will make it P2P nobody except them have control of their data. That sounds like a killer feature.

I wonder if this is just rambling of mine or if somebody will really pull this off.

> control of their data.

This isn’t about privacy, it’s about the addictive design of social media.

Part of which is the massive nature of current social media platforms. Having way smaller/localer ones would most certainly also reduce the addictiveness of them.

Or about sharing nasty content which can't be effectively moderated..

Absolutely, that is responsible for teen suicides in my partners hometown.

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