MeWe—The Next-Gen Social Network
First, some background on MeWe. It has actually been around for some time. Here's a link to a March, 2016 article that provides the genesis information:
MeWe Right Now
MeWe said it had 200,000 members when it launched out of Beta in 2016. When I installed the MeWe app on my Android phone, today April 11, 2018, the PlayStore showed 100,000 downloads and indicated the app was the number 2 trending social app.
So MeWe does have some traction. With all of the recent brouhaha over Facebook's cavalier treatment of its users' information and recent attempts to censor content, MeWe reports a 4,000% membership increase and a 5,000% week-to-week of invited contacts from existing members. All of this while at the same time being ad-free! Here's an article about all of this:
What Makes MeWe Different and Attractive to Some Users?
MeWe "resembles" Facebook in many ways, but it does have some very distinctive differences. Their biggest selling points seem to be:
- Privacy. They don't collect and sell your data. Plus you have extensive control over who can see the data you post.
- Cost. MeWe is free. Further, it has NO advertising of any kind. (To see how MeWe makes money, see the link below.)
- Lack of Censorship. MeWe doesn't censor your content. You are expected to refrain from using the platform for illegal purposes and if reported the content will be deleted. However, they don't "check up" on you for this purpose. Also, Group owners may censor their own groups. In the large, however, MeWe is a very open and unrestrained platform for the exchange of information.
More information about MeWe is available at
A Delphi and Pascal Developers Group
All of this sounds pretty appealing to me and I got to wondering if MeWe would be a good place for a Delphi and Pascal Developers Group. Since the platform is free for anyone, the best way to test this idea seemed to be to simply start a group and see if people find it valuable. So that's what I've done.
Here's the link to join the MeWe Delphi and Pascal Developers Group:
If you don't already have a MeWe account you'll have to sign up, but it's quick and easy to do so, and you don't even have to give them your contact list!
So you can take this as your official invitation to give MeWe a try and also see if a Delphi and Pascal Developers group is a good place for you to exchange information with other developers.
Right now, no approvals are required to join the group. You'll be automatically subscribed to the group as soon as you attempt to join. You will probably want to adjust your own settings for the group to suit your preferences, but that's pretty easy to do. The group does have some rules that I thought would be appropriate:
- Posting must be in English.
- Vendor promotions welcomed if they are relevant to Delphi or Pascal. Spam will not be tolerated. This also means that excessively repeating the same posting is discouraged.
- Also welcomed are general IT postings of interest to the community but not necessarily directly positioned for Delphi or Pascal.
It goes without saying that personal attacks or other kinds of rude or anti-social behavior will also be dealt with severely.
Hope to see you giving this a try. I'm very interested in seeing how MeWe fares in the world of giants like Facebook and Twitter.
