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

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.

Promising Concept. However, improvements are needed: - Streamlined UI: Navigation and structure need simplification. - Enhanced Interest Pages: Dedicated pages for specific topics would improve engagement. - Improved Recommendations: A more advanced system for discovering relevant topics is necessary. - Advanced Profiles: Profiles should better showcase users' interests and contributions - Simplified News Sharing: Sharing news and content should be easier. -Color Custimizable Feed... Etc

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.