If you paid for social media what would you expect in return?

Only close friends and family, no companies and bots, chronologic feed and mass adoption. I know this isn't features, but the problem with social media is not the lack of features.

Privacy is probably the biggest realistic expectation for a paid service. Have correct privacy defaults. Don't make the privacy settings confusing. Don't sell user data. Don't insert or use tracking information.

I think companies + commerce can have a big role to play on some hypothetical paid social media, but there should be a clear separation between interaction with friends/family and any interaction with businesses.

* generated audio that would summarize what had happened since last I logged in. Perhaps more details on family and close friends, and less on acquaintances.

* maybe along same lines, a dashboard with summarized text version of updates. Updates that we should respond to. Etc.

* automatic muting or removal of political, religious, news posts. Basically, anything that is not personal, just don’t show it.

* everyone is verified. No bots or scammers should be able to get through. If everybody is paying then maybe easy to keep scammers and bots out.

I pay (voluntarily) for social media in the form of sending regular donations to a certain Mastodon instance.

What I expect in return: Reasonable moderation, i.e. don’t allow nazis, basically.

I also “expect” (wish for) reasonable uptime, and in practice it works very well in that regard too.

We are redesigning social media see https://github.com/TetraPlex-org/central/blob/main/Documenta...

Commercial content should be flagged and filterable by the user if desired. Anyone posting commercial for-profit content and doesn't flag it accordingly should be banned.

Other than that, non-user-hostile client apps and an open API.

All content posted being keworded. So a user can block keywords and never see that shite. Not the backwards facebook style where you have to see it before you can say don't show me anymore of that shite.

Privacy, no ads, open source algo (now what X did, better, CURRENT updated version that I can believe runs, they just dumped the algo and then let it rot on Github, we have no clue what they currently run and what changes they made since they "open sourced" it.)

Even better they should just let people run and at least tune the algo to their preferences with a few switches. This stupid idea of ONE algo that serves everyone ...

There don't appear to me any real technical challenges to social media. How do you attract a large audience and how do you moderate content to keep that audience around. So it comes down to marketing and moderation.

Vertical video was a real innovation, but all platforms adopted it pretty quickly.

Advertising and the associated data mining is the most efficient business model for social media. Nothing else comes close.

The biggest problem for me since the advent of X has been the diaspora: my people are on Spill, Mastodon, Threads, Instagram, and Bluesky. They used to all be on Twitter.

The two features I want: world class moderation and all my people in one place.

I would like them to offer some kind of "hackable" feed what i could design my own algorithm. I do not know if you can make it with current technology. But effectively i would like to train my own algorithm or even different algorithms.

I do not trust those companies not to game the algorithm for maximum engagement. The more i have control over the feed the more agency i have to not over indulge.

Maybe you could even add built in feed size limits into the algorithm.

i would delete it off the face of the earth

No regrets here on my investment of :10bux:

1. No ads 2. Punishing bad behaviour over perma-banning profiles. 3. Unbiased moderation 4. No adult content 5. No alt or bot accounts 6. Some puzzles/activities. Engaging content without sensational news 7. Should have healthy mixture of text content(more) and short videos

I’d be happy with nitter as a paid platform with pre musk moderation