What do we want?
When do we want it?
Key Takeaways
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Social media in 2021 is dominated by only a few companies.
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However, adding more platforms into the mix could provide users the experiences they feel are missing.
They may have billions of users, but theyre not without their issues.
It’s a bit hit-or-miss of what platforms are going to make it.
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They’re not going to relinquish their spots without a fight, he said.
This makes it harder for new, smaller social networks to have any impact.
They’re not gonna relinquish their spots without a fight.
Junto
A More Authentic Social web connection?
We are trying to better the culture that we find ourselves in online.
“Things like, does it decrease addiction to technology?
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Is this better for your sense of community authenticity and connection?”
“We’re not trying to be like the one social media platform people use, he said.
I love the idea of geotagging content to get you out and meeting new people, he said.
Like Junto, SpotSelfie does no data mining, no movement tracking, and no advertising in the app.
I don’t want to be compared to a Facebook or [thought of as an] Instagram knockoff.
I just think what we’re doing is so different, he said.
We’re trying to get social networking back to where it was before.
I think [social media] is going to move away from a winner-takes-all economy to an interoperable ecosystem.
