Hi HN,

I’m exploring a new social media platform that puts real connection before algorithms. Before building anything, I’m trying to understand how people actually feel about social media today. If you have 2 minutes, I’d love your thoughts in this short, anonymous survey: https://stoneagesocial.lovable.app/survey

Thanks for your time - your answers will shape how we build something truly different.

Why? The #fediverse beat you to it. No algos. No ads. No walled gardens. There are good reasons people like Cory Doctorow have eschewed corporate social media and solely rely on #Mastodon now. Pick from 1000's of instances.

Everyone who makes the transition seems to agree ... it's the future of social media.

It doesn't matter anymore. Regarding "connections with real people" or "connections with real friends" - the actual social part of social media has moved to group texts.

Aside from iMessage and whatever the equivalent is on Android, there is Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal and Facebook Messenger - and those are basically group text apps. And there are many more such apps. The "town square" idea is dead, you can't fit the whole world into a town and it was silly to ever consider that.

As long as the above exists it doesn't matter to what extent the others become engagement cesspools. What is commonly called "social media" now is the new daytime television. Television had its engagement driven algorithms as well - slower due to the tech of the time, but still there. The content was optimized nationally per timeslot rather than individually.