Censorship and Transparency

It is commonly known that censorship is widespread in many different ways on social media. While there’s general censorship of nudity and violence across all media platforms, some have taken it further than others, limiting the creativity and possibilities of its users.

In recent times we have seen that some platforms started to remove advertisement revenue from smaller channels as well as those who expressed opinions different from the mainstream media, which resulted in outrage in the community.

SNAPY aims to be a fully decentralized and censorship-free app, allowing its users to share their creativity and passion without boundaries.

Despite that, violent, hateful, racist, or detrimentally harming behaviour towards others will not be tolerated to ensure the desired user experience as well as protect users from such negatively damaging engagement.

The demand for transparency on social media platforms has drastically increased in the last few years. The algorithm on current social media platforms that determines the content in the newsfeed of a user has been questioned multiple times because it interferes with the privacy of the user. It now presents unique feeds, according to the data statistics of the individual user. It filters out most of what the user would like to see as well as share, which most people are unaware of.

Such filtering limits the content being displayed, the potential outreach of intended audiences as well as the user’s growth, influence, and usability of the social media platform. Therefore, the user is “abused” and is ultimately controlled by the owner and their platform’s manipulative and highly profitable regulation system.

SNAPY runs on a blockchain that offers the advantage of full transparency, via its decentralized structure. Since submissions and transactions are manifested on the blockchain with a timestamp, there is no way to alter it afterward, ensuring security, trust, and a manipulation-free environment.