Hey there, we've spent the past one year building an app that's essentially a reddit alternative with better cross language support. We're currently in beta and looking for more users. Please check it out on https://spyke.social
I have been using social media for as long as the internet was generally accessible. This is feedback from that perspective, and I hope it is seen as feedback despite the terse critical tone.
- That landing page is obnoxious. Show me content, not marketing.
- I have 0 interest in installing an app.
- If I installed an app, I would only use it to consume content, not write content.
- It is incredibly hard to write well thought or researched content without a web browser/keyboard.
- The colored thread lines are extremely distracting and obnoxious.
- The default "hinglish" instead of my own language "en-US" is confusing for a
platform that promises to be language agnostic.
- The choice to write text that tells me to click the button, and not creating an
interface where button clicking is natural is UI that could be improved.
- Show that language is seamless, not that I can switch between them.
- "Klan" is synonymous with Ku Klux Klan to Americans, an extremely racist American
organization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan
- Putting "Klan" an organization that hates brown people of any type next to
"brown people twitter" is confusing from an American cultural perspective.
> don't let AI control what you see, get an unbiased look at content that everyone is voting on.
Everyone claims no bias. If someone says unbiased, I do not trust them. I would prefer someone to show me they are self aware of their own bias and know what those bias are.
If I watched news that told me only things I agree with, I would consider that unbiased news. In China, "Taiwan is part of China" is a statement Chinese would consider to have no bias. "unbias" has no practical meaning.
Even if AI isn't optimizing for "engagement"/addiction, there are still bots impersonating users which use AI to influence conversations.
