What if there is a social media platform that cares about your privacy and doesn't show any ads whatsoever, will you use it?
Several months ago, I started to learn about online privacy of data and after learning about how some companies handle our data, I was concerned, sot I was trying everything I could to protect my data online, but there were several apps on which I couldn't protect my data and one of the apps were about social media, I was using them all day and I was spending most of my time on them, but they are data hungry apps that want as much personal data as they can, so I thought it didn't matter to protect my data as much because even if I try everything, I can't protect my data from social media and that's how I got the idea for this social media. I have a friend who also liked this idea, but we need feedback from people so that we can be sure that people want this so that we can start our startup.
The platform name is Ciao, It is a Social Media app in which your favorite content creators can upload most type of their digital content (Images, Audio, Video, Podcasts, Text, Links, Blogs, 360-degree videos, Augment Reality (AR), etc.) on the platform, which means you can get all of their content in one place rather than just clicking on bio to get that content or to search about their content on different platform.
You can also buy products either digital or physical products from your favorite content creators on the platform itself.
This social media doesn’t have any ads which means, It is focused on your privacy of data. You have complete control over your data and not us or anyone. As I said earlier, We are not including any ads, which means the business pages will always get highest amount of engagement forever.
We are also focused on minimizing spams as much as possible because they makes the user experience worse & that spam includes, fake accounts, fake information, fake followers, fake likes, fake comments and specially bots, etc.
We have a future vision for this app, we want to create a VR World in which every user can use a VR device to connect to the world and they can meet their friends online, play games with them, talk to them, buy products either digital or physical (they can buy the physical products with the help of AR in VR) and travel the world with them.
We need your feedback on this survey: https://forms.gle/8sKZvxbfoX5TQTGY9
Obviously the biggest struggle with this is if you can get the real value-add of a social platform, which is content. If there are no creators on the platform, then what's the incentive for users? If there are no users on the platform, what's the incentive for creators to get on it? It's a chicken and the egg problem. I would look at how twitter, facebook, etc. started, but ultimately you're going to need to bring value that exceeds what they already have, and the question is if privacy and no ads is enough.
Sadly, I'm skeptical, though I do think what you're doing is very admirable and needed, and the VR angle sounds really interesting. I definitely don't want to live in a future where Mark Zuckerberg owns the multiverse
That's a very thoughtful comment, I will keep that in mind. Thank you so much, that means a lot to me.