Melanated People

2 年

Follow me right quick, so right now MP is like water in a laundry basket. The basket has holes throughout and the water is able to pour through those holes. No power. Now if lets say our members all woke up and said " I'm gonna donation $1.25 a month to MP." Now $1.25×120,000=150,000 a month, $1.8 million a year funded by our members. That allows us to pay our staff a living wage to do this full-time, find those melanated computer engineers and programmers working for google, fbibook, etc and offer them a competitive wage as the others. Purchase, program and house our own servers and had an app built from the ground up with our code only. We just plugged up the holes, put a nozzle on the end, put that basket under pressure now together we can cut stone. Power. Now that power spills into our communities with social programs funded by us pushing ABIBIFAHODIE.

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I'm here and I still want to see us be successful. I have been promoting this site for years. Additionally, I created a group that had a few members and joined other groups. All those groups have been deleted.

Now, let's take a look at this situation. Here are black-owned social media sites that I’m aware of.

Black Planet
Black Planet Next
Black Junction
Black Junction TV
Hour Time Now
Blaqsbi (Pays Members)
Melanated People
Blaggenuf
Melanin People
Black Page
Inpathy
Star Pages (Backed by Ice cube)
Black Connect
Bean
Fanbase (Pays Members)
Breakr

**New Sites** - Launching Soon (probably didn't search to see if we exist)
TruSo
The Cookout

Our community is too fragmented. Every black-owned social media site is the "only one" or “the premier destination” in the minds of their owners.

I checked in on “Black Planet” earlier today. This is what I read.

“Terre_Gables@Terre_Gables • 7 hrs
No further followers will be added to this platform.To those who are currently following thank you. I will go through each profile and IF you are NOT active on your platform OR two your platform has NO substance you will be blocked by me.”

Then, I went over to “Blaqsbi” and saw this announcement.

“It has been more than a five year run and we are sad to announce that due to lack of interest this run will soon end. On Friday, June 14, 2024 at 800 PM EST the Blaqsbi platform will end its services permanently.
We need to reach one million new members before Friday, June 14, 2024 at 80 PM EST to stop permanent shutdown.”

For the record, Blaqsbi was PAYING members to post and participate. That didn’t save the platform.

Those who are dedicated to this pursuit are members on several black owned sites and do not post anywhere else. The issue is that some of our sites encourage a $5 - $30 membership. Others take donations.

Trying to support this fragmented model is expensive and several of these sites went under anyway. We have donated, volunteered to promote them and the result has been primarily been the same. They didn’t survive.

I’ve always maintained the unpopular position of “unification” making us stronger. I have never voiced this until today because I know it sounds heartless but that is not my intention.

Just suppose all our site owners could form a coalition; a “meeting of the minds” if you will. With all those resources combined, we would have ONE top-rated sited that members would be attracted to. As it stands, we have a small percentage of social media users dividing their attentions across five or more black owned sites.

We once had over 400 black-owned banks. We are down to only 17 now, and that number is decreasing because we don’t truly care. “Black Business Directories” are similarly flawed. They all claim to be “National” but only cover regional businesses. I can’t join them all.

If we don’t unify on the social media side, we all lose and somebody’s child will “come up with the idea” again next year.

I have NOT given up. I am open to any and all suggestions but I am sincerely hoping for unification.

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I'm here and I still want to see us be successful. I have been promoting this site for years.  Additionally, I created a group that had a few members and joined other groups.  All those groups have been deleted.  :( 
  
Now, let's take a look at this situation.  Here are  black-owned social media sites that I’m aware of. 
 
Black Planet 
Black Planet Next 
Black Junction 
Black Junction TV 
Hour Time Now 
Blaqsbi (Pays Members) 
Melanated People 
Blaggenuf 
Melanin People 
Black Page  
Inpathy 
Star Pages  (Backed by Ice cube) 
Black Connect 
Bean 
Fanbase (Pays Members) 
Breakr 
 
**New Sites** - Launching Soon (probably didn't search to see if we exist) 
TruSo 
The Cookout 
 
Our community is too fragmented.  Every black-owned social media site is the "only one" or “the premier destination” in the minds of their owners. 
 
I checked in on “Black Planet” earlier today.  This is what I read.  
 
“Terre_Gables@Terre_Gables • 7 hrs 
No further followers will be added to this platform.To those who are currently following thank you. I will go through each profile and IF you are NOT active on your platform OR two your platform has NO substance you will be blocked by me.” 
 
Then, I went over to “Blaqsbi” and saw this announcement. 
 
“It has been more than a five year run and we are sad to announce that due to lack of interest this run will soon end. On Friday, June 14, 2024 at 8:00:00 PM EST the Blaqsbi platform will end its services permanently. 
We need to reach one million new members before Friday, June 14, 2024 at 8:00 PM EST to stop permanent shutdown.” 
 
For the record, Blaqsbi was PAYING members to post and participate.  That didn’t save the platform. 
 
Those who are dedicated to this pursuit are members on several black owned sites and do not post anywhere else.  The issue is that some of our sites encourage  a $5 - $30 membership.  Others take donations. 
 
Trying to support this fragmented model is expensive and several of these sites went under anyway.  We have donated, volunteered to promote them and the result has been primarily been the same.  They didn’t survive. 
 
I’ve always maintained the unpopular position of “unification” making us stronger.  I have never voiced this until today because I know it sounds heartless but that is not my intention. 
 
Just suppose all our site owners could form a coalition; a “meeting of the minds” if you will.  With all those resources combined, we would have ONE top-rated sited that members would be attracted to.  As it stands, we have a small percentage of social media users dividing their attentions across five or more black owned sites. 
 
We once had over 400 black-owned banks.  We are down to only 17 now, and that number is decreasing because we don’t truly care.  “Black Business Directories” are similarly flawed.  They all claim to be “National” but only cover regional businesses.  I can’t join them all. 
 
If we don’t unify on the social media side, we all lose and somebody’s child will “come up with the idea” again next year. 
 
I have NOT given up.  I am open to any and all suggestions but I am sincerely hoping for unification.

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