"I'm eager to give big social media sites like Facebook and Twitter a run for their money." Hosting servers isn't the hard part, and it isnt the same as runnin

"I'm eager to give big social media sites like Facebook and Twitter a run for their money." Hosting servers isn't the hard part, and it isnt the same as running a social media platform. This blog is riddled with neivete and a misuse of the word "fear" to get clicks. Don't even get me started on trying to use the "they didn't come for me" quote when relating to online posts. Government != Private companies If you want to compete you will require moderation, period. Illigal and disturbing content will have to be removed and sectioned off from your users. Or do really you want the average user seeing a trending video of gore and targeted harassment of people? Even 4chan moderates. You will have to serve hundreds of petabytes of image and video data - you will have to use cloudflare or some other cache mechanism like everybody else. Cloudflare was the reason 4chan was kept alive btw. You need lawyers on retainer that understand law pertaining to your business. If not then you're left open to civil liabilities anyone can exploit. You need money. You will require algorithms for promotion of content which requires user tracking which requires databases that contains peoples habitual information. You've now created facebook and twitter or you're running on investor money. Eventually you will have to sell out your users. People forget that the "big social media" all came from the same small places when it was a lot harder to do ( do you know how much more expensive bandwidth used to be?). The difference is they got popular and smelled the money. It takes a very special community to not do the same.