Story
All me is a new social interaction application.
All me is very different from existing social media apps because it supports all our digital social interactions in one place.
We have designed All me to recognise and support the complexity of our lives. Instead of focusing on features and functions the app is focused on you, what you want to do and how you want to interact.
Why are we building this?
All me is unlike current social media. Our existing social media no longer allows us to develop and construct the social interactions we desire, as the social media landscape becomes less social and more filled with garbage.
All me is a direct response to Enshittification (Cory Doctorow Nov 2022), also known as crapification and platform decay, is the term used to describe the pattern in which online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to users and business customers to maximize profits for shareholders.
What is the difference?
All me users will start with up to three profiles and will have the option to use two extra profiles.
All me will – at its core – be private and anonymous as your data belongs to you: you decide who you share it with.
All me supports communities of interests so you find the things that interest you. The subjects or interests aren’t pushed at you.
All me will not carry advertising and will be funded through your micropayments.
All me is designed to support Personal and Professional social interaction in separate profiles.
All me, previous working title: Circles (explainer website https://circles.mobi/) was changed so it cannot be confused with any other app.
How does it work?
All me provides you with access to three profiles when you first sign up:
- Your primary profile is given a system generated name.
- Your secondary optional profile is also an avatar, or a real identity focused on a family or friend circle.
- Your third optional profile is a real identity for b2b and resumé activity.
All me is highly secure:
- Your primary profile can’t be guessed or hijacked since it’s not linked to you.
- We don’t store personal data linked to your financial data in any way.
- We use your primary generated profile to request payment for the app on a Swiss banking payment gateway. The gateway gets the real identity information but only sends All me a notification of paid / not paid.
- Your profiles two and three are not linked to your first profile.
- Servers will be based in Switzerland and subject to Swiss Privacy protections and laws. Switzerland has strong legal protections for individual rights, and in fact the Swiss Federal Constitution explicitly establishes a constitutional right to privacy.
- All me will adopt the United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights as core principals.
Why are we using Crowdfunding?
We have strong interest from corporate financing and have several potential investors.
However, venture capital and private equity have specific requirements for return on investment which would mean we would need to carry advertising.
Since advertising overload is one of the reasons for building this app we can’t compromise on this.
Communication and Updates
Can we contact you to ask questions?
Yes please email us at questions @circles.mobi or use https://www.kickstarter.com/ to communicate. Questions and Answers will be added to the FAQ section.
Where will I get updates on the progress of All me?
Explainer website https://circles.mobi/news/
- Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/all-me-social.bsky.social
- Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/company/all-me-am/
- instagram https://www.instagram.com/allmesocial/
Who is doing this?
All me is being designed and built by Agile World ® Consulting based in Los Angeles, California. It is the concept of Karl A L Smith an inventor, futurist and thought leader known for UX and Agile.
Thank you for being involved.
Risks and challenges
This is the first round of funding. Your support will allow us to get a beta version up and running. At this stage it may not have all the functions that we hope to offer, but its basic structure of ‘no advertising and anonymous profiles’ will be core from the outset. We will add to this core experience – available from the launch of the app – over time as we grow and make the app more excitingly social. You will be an important part in creating this entire app experience. The funding will cover the cost of the MVE, minimum viable experience, we estimate the full cost of the desirable functionality to be $3,500,000.
Environmental commitments
Long-lasting design
We are seeking to build a platform designed to evolve into an ecosystem. That ecosystem has already been considered and been structured to allow divergence in human interactions.