Spoutible 17+

🐳💃🏻🕺🏻the iOS app has been approved! I have been active on Spoutible since February. The iOS app is just as jazzy as the web version. There is no algorithm so users create their own level of engagement through following, posting, sharing, quoting others. Users build the community they wish to have. LGBTQ+ & BBIMAP friendly. Welcoming community in general - lots of folks happy to help get oriented & provide pro tips. Great features: edit posts up to 15 min; easy to add photos & GIFs; ALT text for photos (use it!); enhanced account protections (set privacy & engagement levels with other users); easy threading & collaborative threading; fast; developer(s) accessible & interested in user experience; high level data protection; & user friendly. Advise on engagement: create a profile; post “spouts”; find out what’s “#making waves” & add “#spashtags” to posts to help others with common interests find you; create a timeline by exploring, following, sharing (echos); & join in the fun. Find friends & verified favorites in Search. Know that abusive /trolling behaviors common on other sites not tolerated in TOS or by the community. Need any Help from the developers or community just ask! Dive on in the waters fine! 🌱🌸🐳

I was totally addicted to the bird site, so when I hit my breaking point with the firehose of vitriol and disinformation it devolved to under the muskrat, I was looking for something that would be familiar but the exact opposite in terms of emotional upset. Spoutible’s founder promised a troll-free experience and, for me, the platform delivers. Since joining, I’ve only used the block button once. Literally once. (For an unsolicited DM, something that happened almost daily on the bird).

So, no running battles over the outrage of the day, no hate speech, no constant policing of whether the offenders are humans or bots, no massive anxiety around follower counts and hashtags. In fact, when I visit Spoutible, it’s something SM almost never is—relaxing. People share music and photos, create silly sharing games and themes. I hang out for a while and when I leave I feel … peaceful.

So, no trolls and Spoutible actually has more features than X or any of the knockoffs? I don’t actually know what people are waiting for. Jump in. The water’s fine!

This is such a refreshing, aesthetically appealing social media start-up -- NOT CREATED BY A BILLIONAIRE, but by a guy who knows what he's doing when it comes to social media. Bouzy and his team solicited input from a large community in making policy and design decisions, and the current iteration is nothing short of spectacular when you compare it to everything else out there. The only thing it's lacking is instant scale, but hopefully now that all the apps are up and running, it'll only be a matter of time before "content creators" find out what they're missing and come on over to the light. I love the commitment to safety and anti-bullying and targeted harassment. The threads are super elegant, and ❗️you can even do collaborative threads! EDITS -- you can edit your posts AND your replies. What?!? Honestly, none of the other social media apps offer the features that Spoutible does. You can't miss with this one. We just have to get the news outlets and volume creators to join up! Spread the word!