Spoutible

I was a usable of the Spoutible app since before it was an app, when it was just a website. I enjoyed going on daily and interacting. The features were excellent and continually improving. However I use the past tense because even though I had been a member for more than a year with a solid A rating I am no longer able to access the platform. I have discovered that I was suspended with no notification or notice or anything because I made the unforgivable mistake of responding to a spout by the owner regarding the media publishing fake or doctored pictures about Kate Middleton. My response was not profane or offensive, here is what I posted approximately- “I’m sorry, I’m out. She is a woman fighting cancer. She is a woman with young children fighting cancer. Let it sink in” - that’s it. He deleted my response, suspended my account and kicked me off a platform on which I had been a member in good standing for over a year. So there you go

I was totally addicted to the bird site, so when I hit my breaking point with the firehose of vitriol and disinformation it devolved to under the muskrat, I was looking for something that would be familiar but the exact opposite in terms of emotional upset. Spoutible’s founder promised a troll-free experience and, for me, the platform delivers. Since joining, I’ve only used the block button once. Literally once. (For an unsolicited DM, something that happened almost daily on the bird). So, no running battles over the outrage of the day, no hate speech, no constant policing of whether the offenders are humans or bots, no massive anxiety around follower counts and hashtags. In fact, when I visit Spoutible, it’s something SM almost never is—relaxing. People share music and photos, create silly sharing games and themes. I hang out for a while and when I leave I feel … peaceful. So, no trolls and Spoutible actually has more features than X or any of the knockoffs? I don’t actually know what people are waiting for. Jump in. The water’s fine!

This is such a refreshing, aesthetically appealing social media start-up -- NOT CREATED BY A BILLIONAIRE, but by a guy who knows what he's doing when it comes to social media. Bouzy and his team solicited input from a large community in making policy and design decisions, and the current iteration is nothing short of spectacular when you compare it to everything else out there. The only thing it's lacking is instant scale, but hopefully now that all the apps are up and running, it'll only be a matter of time before "content creators" find out what they're missing and come on over to the light. I love the commitment to safety and anti-bullying and targeted harassment. The threads are super elegant, and ❗️you can even do collaborative threads! EDITS -- you can edit your posts AND your replies. What?!? Honestly, none of the other social media apps offer the features that Spoutible does. You can't miss with this one. We just have to get the news outlets and volume creators to join up! Spread the word!