New feature inspired by a conversation this morning:
It feels like every conversation eventually gets dragged into religion or politics now, no matter where it started.
So we’re building around a simple idea:
I want to decide what I hear and see.
Not an algorithm deciding what will make me angry enough to keep scrolling.
Not somebody else deciding what I should care about.
If you want politics, follow politics.
If you want religion, follow religion.
If you want neither, your social network shouldn’t keep shoving both into your face anyway.
Your feed should reflect your interests, not the platform’s engagement strategy.
New feature inspired by a conversation this morning:
It feels like every conversation eventually gets dragged into religion or politics now, no matter where it started.
So we’re building around a simple idea:
I want to decide what I hear and see.
Not an algorithm deciding what will make me angry enough to keep scrolling.
Not somebody else deciding what I should care about.
If you want politics, follow politics.
If you want religion, follow religion.
If you want neither, your social network shouldn’t keep shoving both into your face anyway.
Your feed should reflect your interests, not the platform’s engagement strategy.
We’re opening 500 pre-alpha Founder spots.
Not users. Founders.
We’re looking for community builders who want to get in before this opens to the public and help shape what comes next.
Founders will be able to:
• Found their own global community
• Give that community Founder status
• Unlock the Founder badge
• Carry Alpha Community status from day one
This is invite-only right now.
Once the 500 Founder spots are gone, they’re gone.
If you’ve ever wanted to build a community from the ground floor instead of showing up after everything is already established, DM me.
I guess now that we’re actively in pre-alpha and operating SceneSpot in a live environment, I can finally tell you a little more about what we’ve been building.
The real social experiment started in 1999 and evolved into SceneSpot in 2002. If you want the full history, receipts and timeline, you can dig through the Founder’s Deck here: https://t.co/1Hj8ysYdC8
After watching social networking slowly turn into something dominated by influencers, products, pay-to-play reach and algorithms deciding what you’re allowed to see, I got tired of complaining about it.
So almost two years ago, I went back to work on the thing I had already spent most of my life thinking about.
SceneSpot is not an attempt to copy whatever platform happens to be winning right now. It is the next evolution of something I had already built decades ago, updated for the internet we actually have today.
The goal is simple:
Bring the social back to social networking.
Less influencer gatekeeping. Less product-first design. Less algorithmic control over who gets seen and who disappears.
More discovery. More community. More personality. More local culture. More actual people.
An environment where anyone has a chance to break through, where your feed is not entirely dictated by an opaque recommendation engine, and where being interesting matters more than already being popular.
Maybe that sounds ambitious.
It is.
But I’ve had 25 years to think about it.
You can learn more in the Founder’s Deck and join the waiting list at https://t.co/PGKSugLjWK.
Alpha testing is currently invite-only, but if you’re interested in being one of the early adopters helping us break things before everyone else gets in, shoot me a DM.
We’ve spent long enough letting algorithms decide who gets a voice. I’d rather build something different.
I guess now that we’re actively in pre-alpha and operating SceneSpot in a live environment, I can finally tell you a little more about what we’ve been building.
The real social experiment started in 1999 and evolved into SceneSpot in 2002. If you want the full history, receipts and timeline, you can dig through the Founder’s Deck here: https://t.co/1Hj8ysYdC8
After watching social networking slowly turn into something dominated by influencers, products, pay-to-play reach and algorithms deciding what you’re allowed to see, I got tired of complaining about it.
So almost two years ago, I went back to work on the thing I had already spent most of my life thinking about.
SceneSpot is not an attempt to copy whatever platform happens to be winning right now. It is the next evolution of something I had already built decades ago, updated for the internet we actually have today.
The goal is simple:
Bring the social back to social networking.
Less influencer gatekeeping. Less product-first design. Less algorithmic control over who gets seen and who disappears.
More discovery. More community. More personality. More local culture. More actual people.
An environment where anyone has a chance to break through, where your feed is not entirely dictated by an opaque recommendation engine, and where being interesting matters more than already being popular.
Maybe that sounds ambitious.
It is.
But I’ve had 25 years to think about it.
You can learn more in the Founder’s Deck and join the waiting list at https://t.co/PGKSugLjWK.
Alpha testing is currently invite-only, but if you’re interested in being one of the early adopters helping us break things before everyone else gets in, shoot me a DM.
We’ve spent long enough letting algorithms decide who gets a voice. I’d rather build something different.
For more than a decade, I worked myself to death building someone else’s dream.
Twelve-hour days. Fourteen-hour days. Sometimes sixteen.
I gave that profession everything I had because that’s what we were taught responsible men were supposed to do. Work hard. Stay loyal. Keep your head down. Build a stable life.
Then one day, the profession I had spent more than ten years building was simply gone.
No loyalty ceremony. No protection for the years sacrificed. Just a reminder that the machine will consume as much of your life as you’re willing to feed it, then replace you the moment the numbers say it should.
Thankfully, they didn’t leave me with nothing.
They left me with time.
Time to return to the work I had been carrying for nearly 25 years.
SceneSpot isn’t a new idea I came up with after losing my job. It is the culmination of my life’s work. Every community I built, every artist I worked with, every failed project, every lesson, every line of code and every idea I had to place on a shelf while I was busy surviving.
I finally had the time to bring it all together.
Today, the main project is finished.
We’re stress-testing it now. Next comes a small friends-and-family pre-alpha, where we’ll break what can be broken, repair what needs repairing, and prepare it for the people it was built to serve.
I’m not telling you this just to announce a project.
I’m telling you because millions of people are working themselves into the ground building lives they don’t own.
They keep telling themselves they’ll pursue their dream when work slows down. When the kids get older. When the money is better. When life finally gives them permission.
Life does not give permission.
Sometimes it takes everything away and waits to see what you build from the wreckage.
A job is not your identity. A company is not your family. Stability is often just dependence wearing a respectable shirt.
We are entering a turning point in society. People are beginning to understand that the tools to build, publish, create, organize and compete are no longer reserved for corporations and gatekeepers.
So build the thing.
Write the book. Start the company. Record the song. Create the platform. Open the shop. Make the product you keep complaining doesn’t exist.
Stop working yourself to death building someone else’s dream while yours dies quietly in the background.
You may not get the perfect opportunity.
You may get laid off.
You may get buried.
You may have to build from underneath the dirt.
Build anyway.
SceneSpot is almost ready.
They thought they ended my career.
They accidentally funded my return.
Would a few of my fellow creators help me review SceneSpot’s founder deck? It traces the platform’s roots from my early online communities to the rebuild today. I need honest feedback on what lands, what drags, and what needs more proof. Reply or DM me.
Tales of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
I didn’t disappear. I went dark.
Buried in code. Wired into the build.
Been prepping for something that’s gonna flip the social game inside out no name drops yet, just know it ain’t another “look at me” app. It’s built for us.
I’ve worked so long I forgot what sleep feels like.
But I’d rather be tired and building the future than rested and stuck in the past.
Stay tuned. The launch isn’t coming.
It’s rising.
Tales of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
I didn’t disappear. I went dark.
Buried in code. Wired into the build.
Been prepping for something that’s gonna flip the social game inside out no name drops yet, just know it ain’t another “look at me” app. It’s built for us.
I’ve worked so long I forgot what sleep feels like.
But I’d rather be tired and building the future than rested and stuck in the past.
Stay tuned. The launch isn’t coming.
It’s rising.
Happy Father’s Day.
Me and my dad, late ’80s, locked in on some RPGs in my cousin’s room old-school Nintendo, no save slots, just heart.
This was before tutorials, before internet forums… just trial, error, and whoever had the better memory.
Miss these times.
Thanks for the foundation, Dad. I build different because of you.
As our streets fill with clones cosplaying rebels, with TikTok radicals #NoKings dressed like Che Guevara and confused baristas chanting for the fall of capitalism between cold brew refills, we pause briefly from the ritual collapse of empire for a very special message.
A Word From Their Sponsors
Sponsored by:
•Emperor Palpatine, as played by George Soros
•Darth Traya, reprised convincingly by Christy Walton
“THE MAIN OBSTACLE TO A STABLE AND JUST WORLD ORDER IS THE UNITED STATES.”
– George Soros
They mean peace, of course….
But only after the ashes.
Only after the Constitution is replaced with Terms & Conditions and your rights are up for auction on OpenAI’s fine print.
⸻
Happy Flag Day
To every Law Enforcement Officer, Service Member, and Veteran who still salutes a flag instead of a hashtag thank you.
You are not obsolete. You are not the villain in their reboot. You are the last firewall between this country and the galactic banker-techno-feudal endgame.
We see you.
⸻
And finally…
Happy Birthday, President Trump. Stay the course this is what we voted for. Let globalists playing Emperal gods only strengthen your resolve.
May God and the Force be with you.
As our streets fill with clones cosplaying rebels, with TikTok radicals #NoKings dressed like Che Guevara and confused baristas chanting for the fall of capitalism between cold brew refills, we pause briefly from the ritual collapse of empire for a very special message.
A Word From Their Sponsors
Sponsored by:
•Emperor Palpatine, as played by George Soros
•Darth Traya, reprised convincingly by Christy Walton
“THE MAIN OBSTACLE TO A STABLE AND JUST WORLD ORDER IS THE UNITED STATES.”
– George Soros
They mean peace, of course….
But only after the ashes.
Only after the Constitution is replaced with Terms & Conditions and your rights are up for auction on OpenAI’s fine print.
⸻
Happy Flag Day
To every Law Enforcement Officer, Service Member, and Veteran who still salutes a flag instead of a hashtag thank you.
You are not obsolete. You are not the villain in their reboot. You are the last firewall between this country and the galactic banker-techno-feudal endgame.
We see you.
⸻
And finally…
Happy Birthday, President Trump. Stay the course this is what we voted for. Let globalists playing Emperal gods only strengthen your resolve.
May God and the Force be with you.