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So You Want To Make A Social Media Platform Do you have a plan for:

  • Harassment and stalking
  • Unwanted NSFW content
  • Unwanted NSFL content
  • Privacy protections and violations
  • Doxxing

1/

  • People being rude/aggressive in bad faith, especially in a way that disrupts normal good-faith communication
  • Coordinated brigading to disrupt normal, good-faith communication
  • People using the platform for "CSAM"
  • Spam
  • Account hijacking
  • Account impersonation

2/

  • Gaming of engagement metrics
  • Manipulation / gaming of the promotion algorithm
  • Manipulation of the platform by foreign states
  • Mass account registration, especially for bad-faith uses (brigading, spam, algorithm gaming)
  • Advertising click fraud

3/

  • Compliance with law enforcement requests
  • Having to comply with awful censorship policies in order to legally operate abroad
  • Having to comply with corrupt and undemocratic governments' horrifying / unethical law enforcement requests in order to legally operate abroad

4/

  • Minors on the platform:
  • Are they allowed to join? If not, preventing it
  • If they are allowed to join, complying with privacy protections for minors
  • Protecting them from abuse, manipulation, and harm when they do inevitably join, regardless of your policies

5/

Human nature is the hardest problem in tech.

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