Yes, definitely less of a company that exists to maximize profit but more of a public service for the greater good. Platforming bad people isn’t ideal but in my opinion, it’s important and those groups should look pathetic in comparison to the majority. I’d imagine memberships in the thousands while more popular beliefs have hundreds of thousands.
At the end of the day, they are our fellow countrymen and we all need to know where we stand. If they were somehow the majority, that doesn’t reflect poorly on application but poorly on the society we live in. It’s like a mirror.
I also want to add that it exists to organize practical action. In these indexes, there would exist mechanisms to organize people politically in the real world with direction and funding. I think how there are so many local elections that go unopposed or have meager voting turnout. These elections could be displayed and individual indexes could actually crowdfund and run candidates on their behalf. People which might never vote in these elections all the sudden are realizing that 500 people in their small town believe the exact same thing as them (not just go blue or go red) and can actually !win! an election. Their candidate is now elected and a direct member of their index which they can talk to and have advocate for them.
The big idea is the bottom up approach could eventually lead to the platform getting senators or governors elected by users of the network if indexes become large enough and potentially threaten the traditional two party system when people realize they don’t stand alone in their distinct beliefs and can do something about it. Pretty cool and pretty powerful (:
