Minus

I kind of sort of love this. A social media platform called Minus.

Gizmodo explains that the user gets 100 posts. That’s it. Once those 100 posts are gone, you can’t post anything else. It would make us think twice about what we share and whether the moment is worth capturing.

As Grosser described it in an email to Gizmodo, “no likes, no follows, no feed algorithms, no accumulating metrics at all — only a single dwindling count of how many posts each user has remaining.” The only interactive function is a reply field.

The description on the front of the site promises there is still information to be gained by looking at a post—just not the same information you’re accustomed to when judging a post on another site:

The feed is reverse chronological, not algorithmic. Post timestamps are vague. Nothing is monetized. There are no likes or follows or noisy notifications. The site’s only visible metric counts down, showing how many posts each user has remaining.

I made an account and went on. Most of the posts are not as profound as you hope knowing that you only get to say 100 things. So maybe better in theory than in practice. But it’s still a super interesting idea.