Where's socii?

TL;DR: social media is starting to feel like a solved problem. Thanks to the Tapbots team's excellent Mastodon1 (and soon Bluesky2) 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 palette3 I've been using for almost a year and the response has been nuts. 600+ points on Hacker News4, 1k+ stars on GitHub5, a feature6 in Codrops' weekly newsletter, and inclusion in Bjango's Pinwheel7 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 elle8 does with her dope isometric Megaman Battle Network‑inspired homepage. At the end of last year I quit working9 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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