Maven: The Serendipity Network

Hey Maven

About this app

On Maven, you follow interests, not influencers. This has 3 core benefits:

A network without borders - Posts and replies are automatically connected to anyone with overlapping interests. It's like a self-organizing group chat on any interest you have.

Community without followers - Because people connect around interests, you don’t need followers to reach your community.

Serendipity without the popularity contest - Every eligible post circulates evenly, exposing more ideas to more people: no like count, no click-bait, no domination

Ratings and reviews

Imports people's mastodon profiles into their networks as though they're users with them. Done without authorization or permission. Anyone willing to do something so slimey with no option to opt out, well I wouldn't be caught dead actually using their service. Wouldn't be surprised if my profile was uploaded too, but didn't bother to look and wouldn't be caught dead using service for people with that kind of lack of ethical framework. Downloaded this to trash in review. Now will uninstall.

Personally, this is the best social media app ever. Using the app made me feel very peaceful; there is no noise: no pictures, reels, etc. Just good talk you can have with people online. There is but one thing I'd like the Maven team to consider. To try out the delete account option I created a post and then deleted my account. I've been able to create a new account with the same username and email address, but I found that my post from before remained. It'd be better if that post was deleted.

Useful content. Fairly rough UX once actually looking at content. Muting a thread sometimes doesn't hide the replies in the stream view. Visual separators between each thread are not great IMO, the "next post" looks very very similar to a reply on a previous post. Replies are not in a visual indented hierarchy (even if its a nested reply its just all inline). Posts that you've already seen or responded to still fill up the home stream. Reactions others have given are not visible.