Hear hear. While I agree with your main points I would object to your objection that someone can't launch a social network in and of itself. But I do think if

Hear hear. While I agree with your main points I would object to your objection that someone can't launch a social network in and of itself. But I do think if you're going to launch a social network you're going to have to tell me how to differentiate your product from all the other products out there. From reading the comments here I think a new social network needs to say the following up front: - closed or open source? - centralised or decentralised? federated or not? - up-front fee, subscription service or paid for by advertising? - privacy policy, what is it? share with 3rd party? - is there an API? how granular is it? - what about sharing and following? - what specific niche are you aiming at or are you going for a general audience? - is your product aiming to be a platform? - how are you different from the incumbents? - mobile or web or native or some combination of the above? - in short, let me know your angle, and give me reasons to try you out Frankly, for me, the fact that you started another social network and let it die would discourage me from trying your new effort. And stuff like `stay beautiful' strikes me as saccharine and inauthentic though maybe I've become too cynical, clearly I'm not within the target audience.