A platform designed to serve the people and its creators, where your contributions are valued and rewarded.
How PopKic came to be
PopKic was founded by two South African brothers who noticed that social media today is more media than social and does not reflect humanity and community. It has become a dysfunctional system that exploits humanity's communal power for capitalistic profit without accountable consequence.
It is being used for propaganda, narrative manipulation, social curation and nefarious global power. It is vulnerable to AI, bots and other manipulation that is often too costly or complex to comprehensively regulate. The regulation that is implemented, in itself, opens backdoors for misuse through filtering, suppression and misrepresentation.
An injustice is occurring in social media platforms who use the people's data with less-than-adequate or no compensation. These brothers envision a more real-life representation of social media that could utilise humanity's social power for the people, be self-regulated, and create a fair economy that rewards everyone who contributes reputable value.
Building a better social media for everyone
The systems that power PopKic
Every user begins with the same Reputation. Your Reputation changes based on your peers' recommendation and validation, your behaviour within the platform's guidelines, and your valid reports (given or received).
The guidelines are based on real life and reputable users can advocate and initiate its adjustment. A user's Reputation score directly correlates to their access to the platform's features and power to influence.
Every user begins with the same Contribution. Users who have achieved the required Reputation, Contribution and/or Badges have access to additional Contribution opportunities.
Contributions unlock rewards in the form of Pop Coins and/or Pop Points. These include creating valuable content, contributing factual value to discussions, valid content-fact reviews with references, valid report reviews, valid bug reports, platform development/growth and more.
Users begin with the same Badges. They are awarded and revoked based on the user's Reputation, Contribution, valid achievements and discretions.
Badges signal to other users the reputability, reliability and relevance of a user as well as benchmark access to specific platform features.
Pop Coins are generated by the platform based on specific standardised principles and awarded to users based on the value they add to the platform, representing the platform's value.
As the value of this currency increases or deflates, fewer coins will be generated and awarded for the same platform value additions to maintain an accurate representation of value. This rewards early adopters and maintains a stable platform economy. Pop Coins can be bought or sold with fiat currency and used to purchase Pop Points.
Pop Points are generated and awarded to users based on the platform's standardised principles. Pop Points are required to post content and interact with other platform features.
They can be purchased with Pop Coins and gifted to other users. This ensures that content creators are invested in maintaining high-quality contributions to the platform.
The first value-add service will use data for matching people for relationships, business, projects, education and more, purchasable with Pop Coins. There are plans for a platform shop, gaming and other value-adds that harness the power of big data for the people.
Join us in building a social media platform that truly serves its community.