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Frank J Casella

1 Year Ago

Steve Wozniak Joins Mewe Advisory Board

"The social media landscape has become broad and populated with dozens of sites trying to get your attention. The big boys like Twitter and Facebook are still there, but smaller operations have worked their way up. MeWe came out during the big Google+ crash, and now they are adding some firepower to their advisory board in the form of Steve Wozniak."
https://techaeris.com/2022/08/03/apple-co-founder-steve-wozniak-joins-mewe-advisory-board/

Worth noting also, other world-renowned thought leaders proudly serve on MeWe’s Advisory Board, including the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

Here is my closed thread as a follow up for context. https://pixels.com/showmessages.php?messageid=6371397


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Bill Swartwout

1 Year Ago

Mewe man need Wozniak and Berners-Lee to help turn the corner to profitability. I could be interested in a subscription-based model “if” the results are there. However, Mewe (why do I always think of a cat?) only has 1% (or less) of the reach of Facebook.

I don’t mind ads. Someone has to pay the bills to keep the lights on. I have earned a lot of $$$ over the years serving Google and Bing ads on my travel websites. In 2008, before the Crash, my Goog earnings bought me a small airplane - for cash. I am now retired from all of that but still keep my first two sites online (from 1999) and still get a small Google check every month (actually direct deposit). I started serving Google for 19 years.

 

Dan Carmichael

1 Year Ago

MeWe's main page touts privacy and "No ads. No spyware. No BS".
With these self-imposed restrictions, MeWe will not achieve profitability.
And like so many other "I will do it differently, I will try to compete" start-ups,
MeWe will eventually fail.

MeWe ranks very low among consumers and "...most customers are generally dissatisfied..."
https://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/mewe.com

Edit:
Wozniak's appointment (purchase?) to MeWe can be seen in a different light:
As an attempt by MeWe to associate recognizable names with MeWe to help in their marketing efforts,
or in other words, as an act of desperation.

 

Bill Swartwout

1 Year Ago

Hey, Dan - I like your ending statement: "as an act of desperation." Yup, the VC guys will eventually want a return on their investment.

 

Frank J Casella

1 Year Ago

"Mewe man need Wozniak and Berners-Lee to help turn the corner to profitability. I could be interested in a subscription-based model “if” the results are there. However, Mewe (why do I always think of a cat?) only has 1% (or less) of the reach of Facebook."

In recent podcasts I recall the founder saying MeWe is already profitable. The site may look like Facebook but I think it works more like FAA or Flickr .. where groups are what causes the networking .. plus you lead people to your paid page. Here are two examples:

https://mewe.com/p/everybitbeautiful

https://mewe.com/p/stevehendersonfineart

Steve Wozniak joins MeWe

"Under the new leadership of media executive Jeffrey Edell as Chairman and CEO of MeWe, the company is expanding its Advisory Board to include the co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak, and its Board of Directors to include co-founder of Harvard Connection that paved the way to what we now know as Facebook, Divya Narendra. .... These additions show the growing number of tech leaders calling for a rejection of the surveillance capitalism models of today’s traditional social media companies. https://apnews.com/press-release/pr-newswire/social-media-f98e3e85a4677b907959ab5e81309ce3

 
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1 Year Ago

I have a MeWe account, but have (as yet) not made a single connection or found a group worthy of my time. The site and app work just fine, but I don't see how I will ever justify time spent there. My impression is, it could be good for a closed group who already know each other and need an online place to meet. But, I really don't see how to make quality new connections. My account is:

https://mewe.com/i/codedimages

 

Frank J Casella

1 Year Ago

MeWe to join Project Liberty's internet protocol

"MeWe, a free and subscription-based social media platform that bills itself as a privacy-focused alternative to Facebook, is migrating its entire platform to a blockchain-based, decentralized web infrastructure backed by billionaire Frank McCourt's Project Liberty venture."
https://www.axios.com/2022/09/20/me-we-project-liberty-frank-mccourt


"Project Liberty aims to create a new civic architecture for the digital world that returns the ownership and control of personal data to individuals, embeds ethical values into technology, and expands economic opportunities for web users and developers alike. " https://www.projectliberty.io/about/

 

Jim Hughes

1 Year Ago

I don't know much about Wozniak, but if Berners-Lee is involved that gives MeWe a big boost in credibility.

 

Floyd Snyder

1 Year Ago

Well, considering Wozniak's history of huge failures, I would not bet large on him turning MeWe profitable.

At one time, years back, he held the record for the most amount of money ever lost on investing in stocks. Recently he was scammed out of millions in bitcoin. He filed a law suit blaming YouTube for putting out the information he gambled on and lost the law suit as well.

 

Jim Hughes

1 Year Ago

Wozniak didn't fall prey to any Bitcoin scam. Rather, he sued YouTube for allowing images of him to be used in videos promoting such a scam. Youtube denied responsibility for the content.

 

Frank J Casella

1 Year Ago

This is interesting ...

"Dear MeWe members,

Rolling Stone Magazine just published an op-ed I wrote about the changing social media landscape, and my views of how to solve some of the industry's biggest conundrums.

In the op-ed, I discuss how today's social media giants lost their way when they decided to put advertisers first, at the expense of their users.

I wrote: "I love the ways technology evolved to bring us closer or help us explore our passions. But, like a lot of people, I miss the way social media used to feel private and safe, and that the internet as a whole was a place where we controlled our own experience . . . The backlash to recent changes is a good reminder that in the end, it is users — not advertisers — who are the heart of social . . . there is a lesson that today’s big social media companies never seem to want to learn: Users deserve control. They deserve choice."

This is what MeWe is all about. Empowering you - the MeWe community - with the trust, control, and choice you deserve. MeWe isn't about serving advertisers or marketers. Instead, MeWe users are our only customers to serve and delight.

Here is the link - hope you enjoy it and please share it if you'd like:
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture-council/articles/is-social-media-really-social-1234600179/

Additionally, MeWe was recently featured in Axios about the company's decision to give users the option to move to a Web3 / Decentralized platform. This move underscores MeWe's commitment to giving you total control and ownership of your social media experience: https://www.axios.com/2022/09/20/me-we-project-liberty-frank-mccourt

#LetsMeWe

Jeffrey Edell
Chairman and CEO "

 

I'm on MeWe and have found some good contact through some Photography Groups.

I actually prefer it over Facebook because I do not have to put up with intrusive ads or folks that are just plain obnoxious just for the sake of being obnoxious. Of course I don't spend that much time conversing there. Mostly Group Activities.

The one thing I have found though is that it can be a bit clunky at times.

Don't think many folks are abandoning FB for it.

https://mewe.com/i/glennmccarthy3

 

Floyd Snyder

1 Year Ago

Apple Inc. (AAPL) co-founder and technology czar Steve Wozniak said his bitcoins were stolen through a cryptocurrency credit-card scam.

https://www.investopedia.com/news/how-steve-wozniaks-bitcoins-got-stolen/

 
 

Frank J Casella

1 Year Ago

The privacy-focused social networking company MeWe is looking to change its reputation from being a hub for right-wing extremist groups to a trusted Facebook alternative that people have actually heard of. To do so, the company has raised $27 million in a Series A round led by private company McCourt Global, which contributed $15 million. Previous investors contributed the other $12 million. The round values MeWe at $200 million. https://www.forbes.com/sites/ariannajohnson/2022/09/13/facebook-alternative-mewe-raises-27-million-to-help-it-become-a-household-name/

 

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