My 6-Year Journey to Building a Social Media App from Scratch

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In 2018, after completing my computer specialist training and just before starting university, my best friend and I came up with the idea for a social media app. We were driven by our frustration with how major platforms prioritize profits, often at the expense of user experience. These platforms have increasingly cluttered user feeds with ads, reducing the visibility of content that users genuinely follow and are interested in. This shift seems designed to keep users scrolling longer, not necessarily more meaningfully engaged. We felt this could be approached differently, aiming to build something more community-focused, free from external investor pressures.One of the key features of the a

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