How would I construct an ethical social media?
How would I construct an ethical social media?
- Decentralised ownership, no shareholder pressure.
- Health-centric user interface - reduction in colour hyperintensity, integrated blue-light removal, scrolling feature replaced by page-turning, algorithm organically sorted, audio posts discouraged, automatic notification silencing in unsociable hours.
- Push for global userbase, accessible on non-modern devices / low data speeds.
- Merit-based promotion methods, no financial in-app purchase options to increase reach.
- Regular discovery pathways to offset radicalisation and to prevent influencer oligarchies.
- Meta-style oversight board / Supreme Court to critically engage with censorship decisions.
- Company directors must be from creative sector.
- Number-decentralised metrics (perhaps moving towards a model similar to Tik-Tok or 2009 Youtube - long responses prioritised over views, likes etc).
- Carbon zero data banks.
- Integrated non-technology motivations in-app, calls for adventure, such as - app will not function until user takes a photo of the first bird they can find.
- Borderless hiring.
- Forest office for staff - outdoor meetings and workspaces encouraged.
- Zero on-platform advertising - funding supplied by global network of mushroom farms.
- Excess funds sponsor rewilding projects voted for by users.
- All physical in-company correspondence is seed paper.
- Craft classes for staff after work, free of charge.
- Marketplace adjoined to social media for moneyless trading of goods and services.
- Artists and community activists in local area flagged to users.
- Toggle option for dance breaks.
- Grassroots company manfiesto updated yearly on what we want for the future of humanity & technology, co-written by all users.