Welcome to Cake, @ngrant123! There have been a ton of great comments in here, so I won’t rehash anything already said. What I would add is what I’ve liked about Cake is its clear message and purpose: To have better, troll-free conversations online. So, whatever platform you come up with, make sure you have a clear focus and purpose. And that you communicate that to people. People need to know why your social media platform is unique and different from a platform they are already on.

A good social network should be easy and accessible from anywhere on any device.

It's the reason that people love FaceBook, Twitter, and Instagram. Quick and easy signup, nothing technical or complicated, and then they can access it from wherever they are on whatever device they have to hand.

It's also the reason that I'm here posting on Cake after trying out about 15 different 'alternative' social networks during the last week for an article I'm writing and dismissing most of them incredibly quickly.

People care about privacy but they don't all want the complication of something like Disapora, they have to start selecting nodes, etc. and just drop out before they even get signed up.

Currently developing a new kind of social media platform Kodi nox

and what makes it a 'new kind' of social media platform?

Did you know that you're being tracked by doubleclick and google when you use this site?

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