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title: Where's socii?
date:  2025-03-06
tags:  project
tldr:  Social media is decent
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TL;DR: social media is starting to feel like a **solved problem**. Thanks to the
Tapbots team's excellent Mastodon[1] (and soon Bluesky[2]) clients, I no longer
feel the burning need to create the perfect social network…Mastodon and Bluesky
are Good Enough™.

I recently released a color palette[3] I've been using for almost a year and the
response has been nuts. 600+ points on Hacker News[4], 1k+ stars on GitHub[5], a
feature[6] in Codrops' weekly newsletter, and inclusion in Bjango's Pinwheel[7]
app…WTF!! Mind you, my only expectation was a _handful_ of people would find it
neat and I'd continue on to another project.

Anyhoo, I like the process of scratching an itch and then releasing something
fairly quickly, similar to what elle[8] does with her dope isometric Megaman
Battle Network‑inspired homepage. At the end of last year I quit working[9] on a
massive project (domain registry/registrar) and moved to another one
(socii)[10]. Coupled with my general satisfaction with Mastodon, my motivation
to work on socii dwindled. Is this the end? For now, sure. What will I do in the
meantime then?

I'm making a paid video platform that'll be a cross between Vimeo, YouTube, and
something else I don't wish to divulge just yet. Isn't a platform massive
though? It's kinda in the name. Well, yes and no. It's massive if it's open to
the public. If it's just open to my friends and I, it's manageable.

My use case is that I want to share my sick Fortnite and No Man's Sky clips, and
I don't wanna use Google platforms. Vimeo is full‑on enterprise focused these
days and what else is out there? Dailymotion? Worldstar? IG? No thanks.

The web has ossified and options for hosting blogs, email, homepages, and video
are limited. I feel that we (designers, builders, enthusiasts) owe it to the
internet we love so much to build these options.

I apologize to everyone hoping to use socii but I gotta work on things that move
me. On the plus side, some socii features will make their way over to ▓▒░▓▒▓.

🕸️

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[1]: https://tapbots.com/ivory
[2]: https://tapbots.com/phoenix
[3]: https://uchu.style
[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43072338
[5]: https://github.com/NeverCease/uchu
[6]: https://thecollectivenewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/the-collective-900
[7]: https://bjango.com/mac/pinwheel
[8]: https://ellesho.me/page
[9]: https://blog.neuenet.com/post/devlog-014
[10]: https://social.coop/@netopwibby/113329030542527807