You are correct:
The app will not magically grow or diversify the community on its own!
As I previously expressed – the app is a TOOL, and it is up to us to create those communities.
Needless to say – putting an app in the store and expecting it to grow exponentially just because
it is available – is a false hope indeed.
Still, this app is designed to greatly enable - and is probably required -
to allow this process of growth and diversifying to happen at all:
If you follow the process of the app conception from the beginning, you will come across several
initial posts, trying to figure out together with the community here - what the best direction is.
The comments in these posts, together with several other inputs, yielded results:
suggest that changing this reality requires a combined effort:
One, is supplying an alternative platform, a “hosting space” to hang out, that is neutral –
and is therefore more inviting to demographic groups that are uncomfortable with current platforms.
The second – is reaching out outside of the community, and inviting those out there – into this neutral hosting space - to hanging out.
Doing the first without the second – will probably fail.
Doing the second without the first – will probably fail.
Doing both – has an actual chance to change things.
If you look it up – you will see that I have expressed the necessity for us to represent this community outwards.
I wrote about it in this thread about Netfilx “bonding”, for example.
It was also the path I suggested in my first video – which I launched when I presented the app.
My point here, is that though there are no promises of success (and there never are),
and though I made no promise to not make any mistakes, The process and concept are thought of.
Though it is evidently not an easy fix “just make an app and everything will change” -
it is a process that has a chance to transform things. I actually can not think of an
easier or more sure way to do so (or I would have taken that way…).
One last, personal, note.
I am making great efforts to approach the community with the proper humility on the one hand
– while reflecting the seriousness, thoroughness, effort, and magnitude of this opportunity.
This project cannot be done commercially, in my opinion – but it seems that once something is voluntary
and is expected to be free – people tend to underestimate it - to say the least.
Still, with some of the responses so far, I cannot but wonder:
Why are people so eager to insult me, or go to greatest length to argue how "everything I do is wrong",
instead of taking on this opportunity and accepting the invitation to be a part of change?
For example:
Given I am not good at conveying the required messages – why isn’t anyone saying
“Allow me to convey these ideas – I am good at it – and let me free you to do the development work you are doing”?
Why is there so much resistance here? Do you want things to change at all..?
PLEASE REPOST / REBLOG!
The app will not magically grow or diversify the community on its own!
As I previously expressed – the app is a TOOL, and it is up to us to create those communities.
Needless to say – putting an app in the store and expecting it to grow exponentially just because
it is available – is a false hope indeed.
Still, this app is designed to greatly enable - and is probably required -
to allow this process of growth and diversifying to happen at all:
If you follow the process of the app conception from the beginning, you will come across several
initial posts, trying to figure out together with the community here - what the best direction is.
The comments in these posts, together with several other inputs, yielded results:
- That the prevalence to accepting tickling in the sexual context in the general population
is greater than it seems. - That there are several demographic groups under represented - or unwilling to take an active role -
in current platforms due to the nature of these platforms.
For example, as explained well in the already mentioned comment by Myriads:
The trade off of having a free forum of tickling media – is that its vibe centralizes on a very specific male perspective of the fetish.
Though there are undoubtedly “playful ticklephiles” in the crowd (and evidently – some women) - this environment is not
one that supports these demographic groups’ retention and growth within the community.
suggest that changing this reality requires a combined effort:
One, is supplying an alternative platform, a “hosting space” to hang out, that is neutral –
and is therefore more inviting to demographic groups that are uncomfortable with current platforms.
The second – is reaching out outside of the community, and inviting those out there – into this neutral hosting space - to hanging out.
Doing the first without the second – will probably fail.
Doing the second without the first – will probably fail.
Doing both – has an actual chance to change things.
If you look it up – you will see that I have expressed the necessity for us to represent this community outwards.
I wrote about it in this thread about Netfilx “bonding”, for example.
It was also the path I suggested in my first video – which I launched when I presented the app.
My point here, is that though there are no promises of success (and there never are),
and though I made no promise to not make any mistakes, The process and concept are thought of.
Though it is evidently not an easy fix “just make an app and everything will change” -
it is a process that has a chance to transform things. I actually can not think of an
easier or more sure way to do so (or I would have taken that way…).
One last, personal, note.
I am making great efforts to approach the community with the proper humility on the one hand
– while reflecting the seriousness, thoroughness, effort, and magnitude of this opportunity.
This project cannot be done commercially, in my opinion – but it seems that once something is voluntary
and is expected to be free – people tend to underestimate it - to say the least.
Still, with some of the responses so far, I cannot but wonder:
Why are people so eager to insult me, or go to greatest length to argue how "everything I do is wrong",
instead of taking on this opportunity and accepting the invitation to be a part of change?
For example:
Given I am not good at conveying the required messages – why isn’t anyone saying
“Allow me to convey these ideas – I am good at it – and let me free you to do the development work you are doing”?
Why is there so much resistance here? Do you want things to change at all..?
PLEASE REPOST / REBLOG!
