@rrhoover Hey! So glad to have you as an early user Ryan! I think there's a lot of room for playing with different social network dynamics still, including making it easier for people to play with identity. The big problem anonymous sites get is abuse, and the problem everyone deals with is groupthink. E.g. subreddits and speciality sites get more groupthink as they get bigger. We think the solution to both is figuring out who sees what. We're learning from the voting behavior of users, and can learn who should see what from that. This means that people who troll too much do see consequences. They might see other people who enjoy troll posts.. but their targets will not see them. This also helps with political polarization in that everyone sees content that they might not agree with (and thus expands their horizon), but not necessarily stuff that they are completely opposed to (which would just lead to super tribal highly polarized fights). So we think the key is in managing attention well and building an economy around it, that allows users to help us curate at scale.

@chrismessina Whoops! Thanks for checking us out. Was this on web/mobile web or on iPhone? Will try to get this sorted asap!

@paulsbohm I believe this was on Safari on iOS... but wouldn't the redirect URL be universal?

@chrismessina fixed now! (might have to explicitly reload the page with the FB login button)

@__tosh Thank you Tosh! Lots of work and love went in to this product!

@cozysd We're building an attention economy where coins flow between content producers, hunters, curators, moderators and admins, and consumers, and we'll take a cut of that. It's an alternate model to advertising.

@3x14159265 you can comment from mobile Web, just not post top-level posts yet. We'll make that happen soon!

@paulsbohm Fantastic app, it's a time for an alternative to Facebook and Twitter, excellent work Paul and October team! Can't wait to see what's next.

@paulsbohm Is privacy of users a concern for October? How do you secure user data? Are there plans to make the social network accessible from the desktop.

@paulsbohm any plans for the iOS plans to be available on international stores, it feels like an app that I would not be using often on desktop as I would on mobile

@teapot I have a computer security background (specializing on exploit design and banking security), so I know from experience how hard of a problem the security of our platform is. We have hardened security on the platform, but there are ways in which we can still improve. Security isn't a feature that's ever done, so this will be an ongoing process that never stops for us. Our most important data is the identity of our anonymous posters, and we're protecting these identities as securely as we can. We will automatically unlink identities from posts after a few months, so that after this period we won't be able to recover the identities ourselves anymore. It's important to point out here that we are not good for whistleblowers: We have to comply with law enforcement subpoenas, and we'll know people's anonymous identities for up to a year and have to hand those over if our lawyers can't fight the subpoenas off. We're VC and angel funded and we will continue to require money to sustain ourselves until we get our economy working. I do think there will be potential for the users to own part of October, and we have negotiated a lot of control with our investors to be able to do things like that in the future. Thanks for giving us a try! Your feedback is super welcome

@jvosloo Thank you @jvosloo! Let's make it a thriving community!

@somangshu Thank you @somangshu. It's important to stress that our security is designed to protect normal people posting secrets, not to protect whistleblowers from nation states. We will keep improving our security and have a roadmap with lots of important security milestones, but whistleblower protection is very hard and complicated and legally fraught, so we don't think we're currently a good match for that.

@paulsbohm i agree. It more complicated. But would you put it out to the people so that they know the platform shall not be used for such cases. How would you explicitly stop these wistleblowers if they wished to use October ?. I definitely feel this powers people to maintain the anonymity when they wish for. Kuddos to that.!

@dorota_parad We'll add more information to the landing page! But trying it out is still the best way to get a feeling for how it is different!

@dorota_parad Did you have any more questions? Had a chance to try it?

@paulsbohm I didn't try it, as I still don't know what it is and how it would be useful. I value my time 😉 I'm probably not your target audience though.

True! I like that you can post anonymously! Also the invite button is a good idea! Might borrow that idea for my platform, ElfShare ;) :D

@chazthetic Thank you Charles! Let me know if you have ideas for how we can make it even better! We're super thrilled that people like it so much!

@burgerofwisdom Thank you! we're trying our best to create social media that makes us smarter and reduces groupthink, while also hopefully increasing mutual understanding and kindness in the world. It's a very tough challenge, but we think it needs to be done!

@zelena Thank you Elena. That's what we're going for. Why make Tweets 280 Characters, when pictures are a 1000 words? Even for deep intellectual conversations!

@paulsbohm because Twitter was originally built around the 160-character limitations of SMS? 😜

@paulsbohm @chrismessina I had no clue about that***

@aaronoleary Not yet. We're focusing on getting the model right first. Once the economics solidify, we'll move increasingly to the blockchain over time. we'll probably have the tokens themselves as an ERC-20 token before anything else. but that requires sensible economic policy first.

@adriano_cahete You can use the mobile web app in the meanwhile! We will bring an Android App as soon as we have hired the right people to build it!