New Social Media App Punishes Rage Baiting to Users

If there’s one social media certainty in 2025, that’s this: the Rage Clicks rule. Exaggeration, hatred, brash’s deception – it’s all a par on the course and often rewarded with virality.

But Sez Us, an app just released by veteran Democratic strategist Joe Trippi, believes it is possible to change it by punishing users who punish shit for provocation.

The timing may be just right. America is in Olihead age Rising right-wing extremism protects global politics. Platforms like Truth Social and X now operate as effective propaganda machines, reshaping the issue of the culture war over immigration, ofand Trans rights As a bougaiman in President Trump’s new vision of America, this is truly a very old version of America. As the next era of social media emerges, emerging platforms have the opportunity to rise at that moment. Can Sez Us position itself as an antithesis of X promote better ways?

“When we regained responsibility, ownership and reputation, all of the real world’s incentives suddenly returned,” says Yevgeny Simkin, co-founder and chief product officer of Sez Us.

Even if online discourse is delegated A fierce spectaclePlatforms like BlueSky show that there is an appetite for more civil conversations. Rather than increasing the number of posts that get angry clicks, Sez Us uses what creators call the “reputation engine.” It is a feature that allows you to rate the posts of another user on the platform across five key areas: approval, influence, insight, relevance and politeness.

In the app, ratings determine the user’s reputation score and overall visibility. The higher the score, the more reach you have in your community. Users can also control who responds based on a person’s score. Degraded users will be penalised for less influence. All posts will be displayed, but users can block replies, for example, if there is no high approval rating. Ultimately, the rating is designed to rob engagement based on the moment of the virus.

“That’s not that the moderator is coming in and saying, ‘You’re in the wrong,'” Simkin says. “It’s the community saying, ‘I don’t like what you’re saying.’ Then I know how to say things.

In the race to perfect social media, there was no one-size-fits-all solution when it came to moderation. I’m still curious. Scale can make this task even more difficult as the platform’s user base grows. For Simkin and his team, the idea was to build a platform that “puts all the ways social media does it, not before, to the forefront.” “The camel’s back was broken by a straw Buy Elon (Musk) TwitterAnd then, all of a sudden, it seemed like a whole new world was possible.

Twitter’s destruction, ever since Rebranded as xlaunched an arms race among engineers who had all sorts of ideas about the next stage of social media and how to define it. During this period of 2022, the concept of SEZ US was born and based on the lofty goal of regaining civic discourse.