I think a well executed walled garden social network could succeed. Reddit is chasing the lowest common denominator, and something that chases higher brow conte

I think a well executed walled garden social network could succeed. Reddit is chasing the lowest common denominator, and something that chases higher brow content could be good. Something that tries to be more hard-lined about bad faith speech/users could probably do well. AI dang? AI automoderating away calling someone names. AI weighing in on factual correctness? AI tagging? All things that might add value to an online forum. A lot of forums are post based, but I imagine that altering content ranking based on reputation might be interesting. I'm not sure you have the right approach and until you have a network of users you have no value, so I'm not sure why anyone would pay. I don't think you've thought about your very real bootstapping problem enough. I think your bootstrapping problem is big enough that it dominates all other considerations. What's going to make people come to your site? After you have an answer to that, you are probably going to pivot away from what you think you're building right now anyway.