Maven Is a New Social Network That Eliminates Followers—and Hopefully Stress

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May 16, 2024, 10:00 AM

Maven is a new social network that eschews likes and follows in favor of letting pure chance play more of a role in what appears in users' feeds. The platform is the brainchild of computer scientist and AI researcher Kenneth Stanley, who believes that most social networks suffer from the weight of objectives, because of the way they incentivize likes, follows, and attention. On Maven, you don't have followers, so you don't have to worry about what your followers want to hear from you, or how to gain more of them. If you have a question about, say, washing machines, Stanley says, you can just post it, no stress, and let the platform find an appropriate audience.

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