Fizz: Your Authentic Community 17+

Useful but broken

I am an avid user and early adopter of this app at my school, and I really enjoy it, it fixes so many things I dislike about social media and even when it’s stupid I still find useful info about what is happening on my campus faster than any other medium. However, it does have a major problem, and that is blocking. I have a stalker who was able to identify my posts, and even after I blocked my stalker comments were still viewable to them. I still get notifications when they call me out by name on comments or reFizzes and the only solution would be to irreversibly delete my account. While I can understand why this is a more difficult issue to fix than it seems this should be a development priority and until then I can only say: download this app, but post nothing

frustrated

I found this app about a week or so ago and i’ve grown to love it, but they updated posting amounts by making you “wait a FEW MINUTES” before making a post after you’ve posted 3 within like a half hour to an hour? 🤨 Sometimes I just have a lot on my mind and want to post so why am I being put in time out just leaving and reentering the app every few minutes to try to post again. I’m not exactly sure how long it makes you wait because usually I leave the app out of frustration because I can’t post on it (yasss user engagement!). I get spamming issues, but maybe there should be a cooldown for people flagged for spam by… MODERATORS? Why am I forced to be shut up by an app who spreads… community? Socialization? Also the way I can’t even use my handle anymore for ALL of my posts? 🤔 What was the point of this change? So now not only are my posts unable to be verifiably posted by ME, but I truly don’t understand the point? Can other people not just enter their pseudonym as my handle? I don’t know… but I do know that i’m getting frustrated with the updates 😩 Just let me post freely please!!!

An App for Dating, Sexting or Fighting, Nothing Else.

The app has always been questionable but when it took down the barriers between schools the downhill descent began. The feed is constantly pictures of people's bodies and inappropriate content. You can find videos of people literally having sex at certain times of night. You can find people being transphobic, homophobic, and colorist despite this being an app for people of color.

Now, they opened the app to anyone. This isn't a college app anymore, it's for anyone. Locals that don't go to any kind of school can now make accounts, and that's so dangerous. You used to have a sense of security knowing you were at the very least speaking to fellow college students. Now you could be talking to someone of any age and demographic, anywhere in your city. This has become a hunting grounds for predatory and insecure users that enjoy tearing other people down or looking for people to have sex with. I hate what it's become, because the concept was great.

You all ran this thing into the ground, congratulations on ruining your product.

Developer Response ,

Hi there! We take content moderation extremely seriously, including having teams of trained student moderators at every school in addition to a central moderation team at Fizz HQ. We investigate all claims seriously. If there is a specific situation you would like addressed, can you please email us at info@fizz.social? You can also learn more about our content moderation practices at fizz.social.