Shaerd

Shaerd

Social media platform built on shared accountability

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Shaerd is a new social media platform, designed to combat abuse, spam and disinformation through shared accountability. Users are require "support" before they can post and those that enable abusive behaviour share accountability with those that commit it
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Greg Asquith
I built Shaerd for two main reasons: 1 - The (mainly racial) abuse suffered by footballers in the UK at the moment is running unchecked on other platforms, even forcing some to leave places where they could engage with supporters. Shaerd is designed a in way to prevent users from creating "burner" accounts quickly and easily, specifically to abuse others, as well as sharing accountability between abusers and those that enable abuse. 2 - I'm an avid Twitter user, but often found myself drawn to "Trending Topics" that contained a lot of disinformation, aggressive arguing and other content that affects my mental state and often riles me up and makes me more likely to lash out virtually. I want Shaerd to be a place where quality content (curated by humans) is promoted to users, not divisive content aimed at boosting engagement, no matter the type.
Tomas Batrla
This is a great product, Greg! I think that it solves a really big problem of social media and human communication overall. I have a question though: How would you prevent the effort of a group of people trying to boost each other's reputation and abuse this status later on?
Greg Asquith
@bartolomej Great question! When a post/user is reported for breaking the terms of service or community guidelines, not only are they removed from the platform (for extreme cases such as racism) but also, all those that "supported" that user are marked down, meaning their "support" counts for less compared to users who don't abuse. So if there's a big group who just support each other to abuse other people, they will all be taken down at the same time