Rhyme - Better conversations online. Built for people.

Rhyme is a topic-focused social platform built around a few specific ideas, all of which exist in direct response to the things we just described. One canonical room per topic. Subjects don’t fragment into twenty competing communities you have to guess between. Rhyme builds and maintains the topic structure itself. Want to talk about the Kansas City Chiefs? There’s one room for that. Not seven. Not seven hundred. When something is happening in the world, the discussion happens in one place, where everyone can find it. Topics are hierarchical, and posts can live in many of them. A post about the AirPods Max lives loudest in AirPods Max, softer in AirPods, quieter still in Apple, and as a whisper in Technology. A post about Columbus Park surfaces in Kansas City and Jackson County too. You don’t have to guess where to put a post. You don’t have to cross-post manually. The structure does the work, so the conversation finds the people it should find. Moderation is global, not feudal. Communities are not run by random volunteers with personal grudges and their thumbs on the scale deciding what you do and do not get to say. The rules are the rules. They apply everywhere. They are clear, and they are the same for everyone. Thumbs up and thumbs down exist, but the counts are private. The voting still helps the system understand what’s worth surfacing. But you don’t see the score on a post, and neither does anyone else. We are trying very hard to break the dopamine-chasing scoreboard dynamic that has made the rest of social media into a slot machine. Post because you have something to say. Don’t post for points. You decide what your feed is for. Every post gets analyzed for things like intent and quality of conversation: is this someone asking a real question, sharing news, telling a story, or picking a fight? You choose what you see. Want only educational content? Done. Only funny stuff? Done. No politics, no doom, no rants? Done. Rhyme is a tool. We want you to use it like one. The shorter version: we are trying to make a social platform that incentivizes the things social platforms used to incentivize, and disincentivizes the nonsense we have all gotten used to.