The problem lazarus solves

Aim: To create a Social Media platform that encourages positivity among people and tackles some of the underlying issues in the platforms right now , such as Hate speech, Bullying and Negativity.

Introduction

All of the social media platforms that we have right now are fundamentally flawed, because they all rely on advertising as an optimization function, i.e the machine learning algorithms working underneath them are trying to maximize the time spent by a user on that platform by showing them either content that they love or the content they hate.

So if we think about it , the thing that is being sold to the advertisers is our attention and influence over us. And this method of creating a platform has led to the genesis of many issues over the years ranging from cyberbullying to spreading Hate speech.

Solution Proposed

We propose a Social media platform that would reward the self awareness of the users who are willing to put in the work of making the platform a place of fruitful discussions and positive conversations,while also motivating the ones in need. So, instead of people competing for likes and retweets we’d have people who’d compete for helping others through positive and informative posts and in turn they’d get rewards for doing so. a)This site would provide people with much needed positivity which would help society's unstated needs.

b) It would act as a discussion place for people who are passionate about something and wanna express their thoughts without the fear of being judged.

Key Points considered:

a) The token and monetary system would have an upper limit on each spending. b) The value generated by those tokens would depend on various factors such as the share price of the company, this is done to introduce a dynamic element to the spending . c) If a user puts out multiple posts , a weighted sum would be calculated to give out the number of tokens to the user.