Silicon Valley keeps promising a “healthier” online experience and failing to deliver. After the election, one CEO thinks he has the answer.
The morning of November 5, hours before I was confronted with the sick realization that the world was again about to get exponentially harder for me and the people I love, I received an email from Kunal Lunawat, CEO and cofounder of Wildr, an app he described to me as a “troll-free, text-only” social media platform. “Given the historical import of today, I had to reach out,” he wrote, and I immediately wanted to call bullshit. I get emails like this from startup founders often.
He hopes this new direction for the app can help facilitate a “behavioral shift” in how we interact with one another online, believing text, as opposed to video, allows people to authentically be who they are. “Inauthenticity comes into play when images are at play,” he said, and all I could think was how people have also hidden behind their words online, how trolls have used language to inflict pain. In any case, the timing is providential.
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