The problem with Thinkspot isn’t its UX or features. It’s doomed to failure because it’s a social media company that will really only appeal to a very narrow segment of the population. That’s not a recipe for success, given that social media requires a critical mass of people from lots of different backgrounds using it for it to be worthwhile and enjoyable.

There’s a reason Tinder does better than FarmersOnly Dot Com.

Even though it’s ostensibly for everyone, the people who are naturally drawn to it will be conservative or at best, centrists. Then Peterson stacked the deck by making most of its early beta users and “influencers” people like him. Add to that the feature that allows this cultivated conservative user base to downvote things they don’t like into oblivion, then you basically have a platform on which the left is effectively silenced.

It’s inevitably going to be an echo chamber, even that libertarian blog I cited that gave it a positive review had to acknowledge that.

People don’t want Thinkspot. They want a Twitter/Youtube/Patreon/Reddit that they can’t get kicked off of for any reason. He can’t give them that