Document: WM-065                                                 P. Webb
Category: Project                                             2025.03.06

                             Where’s socii?

Abstract

   Social media is decent

Body

   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 ▓▒░▓▒▓.

   🕸️