Launching today
Rhyme
Better conversations online. Built for people.
62 followers
Better conversations online. Built for people.
62 followers
A more intentional social media. Organized around the things you love, not the people shouting loudest. Rhyme organizes conversation by topic, not by an algorithmic feed. It weighs contributions by judgment, not by who shouted loudest. It eliminates volunteer moderation bias and conversation fragmentation.
@joinrhyme You mention that votes are private, feeds are intent-based, communities aren’t user-controlled, and topics are centrally organized. Those are pretty fundamental changes to how social platforms work today.
My question is: what incentive does a power user, creator, or subject matter expert have to spend time on Rhyme instead of X, Reddit, LinkedIn, or Discord where visibility, reputation, and audience growth already exist?
If someone consistently contributes high-quality content, what do they gain from the platform when public scores, follower dynamics, and traditional social signals are intentionally reduced?
@moh_codokiai This is a good question. The platform does contain a handful of not-yet-surfaced features meant to highlight and reward solid/consistent contributions (that come from both frequent engagement in a single topic, as well as consistent upvotes/positive interaction). So someone who is an expert in Topic X eventually gets publicly recognized as such!
Instead of users chasing likes, users will have to get their dopamine hits from engaging in good conversation, which is something almost all social media is lacking in today.
@joinrhyme That’s interesting. If experts eventually become publicly recognized through consistent contributions, doesn’t that naturally recreate a reputation system similar to what exists on Reddit, Stack Overflow, X, or LinkedIn today?
In other words, are you removing social signals or just shifting them from post-level metrics to user-level reputation? Curious where you draw that line.
@moh_codokiai I'm not sure if any of those tools highlight positive contributors in that way (they might, I'm not a Stack Overflow user). But the difference between Rhyme and the others is that that recognition would come solely from positive interaction on the platform, as opposed to just pure like/upvote counts!
@joinrhyme First of all congrats on the launch. One thing I’m curious about: who decides the topic hierarchy?
If Rhyme owns and maintains the structure instead of the community, how does that scale when new fields, niche interests, and emerging topics appear? It feels like the quality of the entire platform depends on getting that taxonomy right. How are you approaching that challenge?
@josh_bennett1 The algorithm does a super good job of identifying topics/intent - and if someone is discussing something its unfamiliar with (like the Clicks Communicator, a brand new keyboard phone) it runs out, researches it, and builds out the topic/hierarchy. We have little incentive not to build out topics for whatever people bring to the table (because posts and live under multiple topics, and topic hierarchy surfaces posts that otherwise would have been left for dead in more niche/unused topics).
Users have the ability to flag issues with topics/hierarchy and it gets corrected very quickly. Every correction improves the algorithm.
@joinrhyme Nice but let’s say Rhyme succeeds and becomes the default place for AI discussions. What would that experience look like that isn’t possible today on Reddit, Hacker News, Discord, X, or LinkedIn? What’s the outcome users get that existing platforms fundamentally can’t provide?
@xavair So this is actually a really great example because it's something I struggle with as a user on other platforms. Currently if you have a question about AI on "Competing Platform" you have to pick between the following topics: AI, ArtificialIntelligence, Claude, Anthropic, ClaudeCode, Singularity, etc etc etc.
On Rhyme, you fire off one post and it lands in any/all relevant topics (as well as upstream via the topic hierarchy)!