What makes Good Neighbor different?

It's not about the likes

Good Neighbor is not about chasing clout, it's about building community. The algorithm does not respond to "high value" engagement such as views, likes, or comments. In social media, a high number of comments or likes does not necessarily represent the quality of the post--especially in the cases in which a post is intentionally divisive or inciting to manufacture engagement.

Instead, Good Neighbor relies on a complex review system that is designed to incentivize quality evaluations of content and de-incentivize rash thoughts.

Likes are so yesterday. I'm not trying to buy your attention by offering you dopamine hits for how many likes you get. No matter how many likes a post gets, it will only display up to 500 likes.

Don't focus on the likes, focus on the quality of the content and your interactions.

It’s democratic

The inherit problem with existing social media sites is their top down, private control model. Communities as accessible and significant such as “Dogs” can be claimed by a private user and that user will have control of that community for the rest of their natural life.

This is inherently undemocratic. In Good Neighbor, global feeds such as “Dogs” or “Philosophy” are democratically managed, in which the followers of that feed vote on moderators, rules and other aspects of the community.

Communities can decide on moderation rules and policies that suit how that community wants to operate.

Search first

Good Neighbor is designed with content searching as its flagship feature. Too many social media sites fail to recognize they are not just content aggregators, they’re also content indexers. What is a social media except for a way to store, share, categorize, retrieve, and search for content?

Good Neighbor recognizes this and built the application from the ground up to support the most powerful content search feature than any other social media.

Crossposting

The most fundamental aspect of a social media site is the ability to easily share content with large audiences spending as little as time possible to do so.

Traditional social media sites generally support the ideas of crossposting or sharing a post to a group chat or a direct message.

One of Good Neighbor’s features is its feed submission and tagging system.

You can actually submit a post to several feeds at once simply by tagging those feeds in your post. You can even tag your group chat to send it your friends’ group as well. It’s tagging reimagined, and it’s powerful.

Thoughtful UX

Too many social media sites feel like new feature ideas tacked onto an already taxed user interface. Interfaces feel cobbled together. Everything feels cramped. Navigation feels like a maze. You don’t know what anything does and nothing does what you expect. The foundation of the experience was never designed for.

Good Neighbor is born out of a love for UX. Every part of the UX is carefully designed to maximize discoverability, consistency, and searchability. Good UX is self explanatory.

Good Neighbor's UX is simple but powerful. There’s one menu bar. That’s it. No more reaching your thumb to the top right of the screen to open your messages. Anywhere you can go in the app is in that bottom menu bar. The menu bar updates based on what you're doing and includes the ability to search for anything you can do in the app.

The UX components were designed with love and are intended to be powerful, pleasing to interact with, and visually appealing.Good Neighbor truly, at its core, is simply a personal love letter to mobile user experience design.

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