If there is a social media certainty in 2025, it is: Angry Click Rules. Exaggeration, hatred, brave deception – all of this is from the course – often get rewarded by the virus.
But Sez Us, an app just launched by veteran democratic strategist Joe Trippi, believes that such apps can be changed by punishing users who punish them for provocation.
The timing may be just right. The United States is entering Oligarchy Age With the rising right-wing extremism, it has occupied global politics. Today, platforms such as Truth Social and X are now effective propaganda machines, reshaping the cultural war issues about immigration, deiand Transgender rights As boogeymen in President Trump’s new vision for the United States, this is really just an old version of the United States. As the next era of social media unfolds, emerging platforms have the opportunity to rise to the present. Sez Can we position ourselves as the opposite of X, which can promote a better direction?
“If you bring back the responsibility, ownership and reputation, then suddenly all the incentives we have in the real world are back,” said Yevgeny Simkin, co-founder and chief product officer of SEZ US.
Even if online discourse has evolved into Fanatic wonderplatforms like Blues show that people have an appetite for more folk dialogue. Instead of boosting any posts that cause anger, Sez US uses what its creator calls a “reputation engine,” a feature that allows you to rate another user’s posts on the platform: approval, impact, insight, relevance, and courtesy.
On the application, the rating determines the user’s reputation score and overall visibility. The higher the score, the more scope you have in the community. Users can also control who responds to them based on a person’s score, while users with low scores are punished for their less influence. All posts are visible, but you can block users from replying, for example, if they don’t have a high rating. Ultimately, the ratings are designed to deprive viral moment-based participation.
“It has nothing to do with the host saying ‘you’re not good’,” Xinjin said. “It’s about the community saying ‘We don’t like what you’re saying.’ Then, I knew I had to talk.
There has never been a solution that fits the size in the competition to compete on perfect social media – for those Still disturbing. As the platform’s user base grows, the proportion can make this task more difficult. For Simkin and his team, the idea was to build a platform that “pushed all the ways social media should run, not the way it used to be”. “The camel’s back was broken by straw Elon [Musk] Buy Twitter,” Suddenly, a whole new world seems possible.
Twitter’s rupture, because Renamed to xan arms race started among technicians on the next stage of social media and how to define various ideas. It was during this period, in 2022 that the concept of SEZ US was born, based on the lofty goal of bringing back civil discourse.
