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*Just a warning: this is kinda long. I have made cuts to prevent overwhelm*
So I'm on this social network called Peach. You probably have never heard of it (then again, maybe you have). It was created by Dom Hofmann, who was also at the creator of Vine. It's like a cuter version of Twitter with fun features like "magic words" (words you type in to bring up some sort of functionality) and the "Peach oracle" (an online Magic 8 Ball). It was made in the image of a typical social network but has become a bit of an outlier.
( The Story of Peach )
Then over a week ago, Peach went down. Only this time...it didn't go back up. We took refuge on Twitter, where it turns out that there were a good number of other people who still use Peach and were also upset that it was down. There were tweets addressed to Dom Hofmann and to the official Peach Twitter account, begging for an update. Finally, a few days later, there was a rare tweet from the Peach Twitter account saying that they were going to work on getting Peach back up "next week." It seemed to assuage the displaced. We carry the hope that we'll be back on Peach soon, but I have my suspicions. Today there was another tweet from the Peach Twitter account saying that fixing Peach was taking longer than expected, so who knows when it will be back up, if at all...
( Carrying on in MeWe )
So in conclusion: I don't know what will ultimately happen to Peach or what I'll eventually do to bring my social media use back to a healthy balance. Still, I am in awe of Peach and how it has managed to stay alive for so long and how against all odds, it's become a place where people feel safe to express themselves.
So I'm on this social network called Peach. You probably have never heard of it (then again, maybe you have). It was created by Dom Hofmann, who was also at the creator of Vine. It's like a cuter version of Twitter with fun features like "magic words" (words you type in to bring up some sort of functionality) and the "Peach oracle" (an online Magic 8 Ball). It was made in the image of a typical social network but has become a bit of an outlier.
( The Story of Peach )
Then over a week ago, Peach went down. Only this time...it didn't go back up. We took refuge on Twitter, where it turns out that there were a good number of other people who still use Peach and were also upset that it was down. There were tweets addressed to Dom Hofmann and to the official Peach Twitter account, begging for an update. Finally, a few days later, there was a rare tweet from the Peach Twitter account saying that they were going to work on getting Peach back up "next week." It seemed to assuage the displaced. We carry the hope that we'll be back on Peach soon, but I have my suspicions. Today there was another tweet from the Peach Twitter account saying that fixing Peach was taking longer than expected, so who knows when it will be back up, if at all...
( Carrying on in MeWe )
So in conclusion: I don't know what will ultimately happen to Peach or what I'll eventually do to bring my social media use back to a healthy balance. Still, I am in awe of Peach and how it has managed to stay alive for so long and how against all odds, it's become a place where people feel safe to express themselves.
