# 2021-04-19

-   Imagine if your social media platform gave **you**, the individual, all the insights about you that the big tech platforms have about you but sell to others.  Imagine if your platform built you a lovely [[digital garden]] to return to, out of whatever you posted to your stream.

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> Platforms optimize for chatter as “engagement,” not decision, resolution, or consensus. Community control is not in the spec.
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> – [[Vanguard Stacks: Self-Governing against Digital Colonialism]]

The [[Agora]] describes itself as an experimental social network with an intent to coordinate users in the solving of problems.

-   I wonder if we could work on [[speculative outline]]s together in [[Agora]].