Black owned online social media websites future, what is their future?

[richardmurray]

I still believe every single black person online should be a member of at  least one black owned website online. But what is their overall future. When you have so many black people who suggest such a grand business acumen or knowledge of playing the game, or suggest such great foresight plus intellect with their licenses and degrees from various places of education, why haven't said blacks been able to buy and produce great social media websites? 

 

[ProfD]

7 hours ago, richardmurray said:

When you have so many black people who suggest such a grand business acumen or knowledge of playing the game, or suggest such great foresight plus intellect with their licenses and degrees from various places of education, why haven't said blacks been able to buy and produce great social media websites? 

Producing a Black-owned social media website is relatively easy. Getting Black foks to use it is the bigger challenge.

[Pioneer1]

1 hour ago, ProfD said:

Producing a Black-owned social media website is relatively easy. Getting Black foks to use it is the bigger challenge.

I've said time and time again that one of the problems a lot of our people...especially a lot of women....have with this site is that there is too much personal freedom to post and say what you like with very little moderation.
Troy is very light handed when it comes to being a moderator.

Conventional wisdom would say that having the freedom to post your opinions freely is a good thing that would attract people by the thousands.
A true expression of freedom of speech and thought.

However because of the angry and vindictive nature of a lot of our people, this produces the opposite effect.

People like to be able to get you in trouble.
They like to get your posts deleted or even get you blocked/banned if you say something they don't like.
You see it all over social media where you come on a channel or show and you say something the crowd doesn't like or agree with....instead of ignoring you or tolerating you....they alert the moderators and tell them to block or ban you.
It's the culture now.
A culture of intolerance.

Those same people get mad as hell for being blocked for expressing THEIR opinion on a matter, but they'll then turn around and insist that it's fair and demand the same punishment for other of a differing opinion.
This is the very juvenile and extreme thinking of a lot of people.

So a site where they can't run and tattle tale to a mod or point the finger at somebody and make them vanish isn't very attractive to them.

Some of the things you and I have said on this site....we would have been banned our first WEEK on Lipstick Alley, lol.


Plus....let's keep it real.....

A lot of our people don't like sites where Black men are in charge.
Going back to our sistaz again.
Some of our sistaz don't like spaces where the ultimate authority is a Black man.
They'll accept it from a White man or even another Black woman, but the idea of a Black man holding power over what goes on or who goes and who stays....they don't like.

I've known some who didn't want to even WORK for a Black man.
Nearly all of them had daddy issues.
But the very idea that a Black man signed their pay check and told them what to do and could punish them, they didn't like at all.
They were so used to dissing Black men growing up and telling them to kiss their ass....for a brutha to have that type of authority didn't sit well with them.

I know what I'm saying may sound extra, but it's the real deal when it comes to why the traffic on this and other Black ran sites are often light.

[Troy]

There is a myriad of reason why Black social sites don't succeed. 

• No funding
• No media coverage
• The algorithms are against Black social sites -- other sites period
• Search marginalizes Black social sites
• In ability to garner a critical mass (people even Black people want to be where everyone else is)
• Governments allow monopolies to emerge

That said I'd argue any Black social site can be very successful - even this one if folks posed (versus lurking).