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[Pyrodon: An ambitious social network for makers and dreamers looking to challenge Twitter and Facebook]

Social media these days is dominated by trending hashtags, comedians and celebrities, politicians and influencers. You want to use social media, you play a game of popularity and controversy - hardly useful for creatives. Not to mention, they're hardly useful places for learning skills or structured debate, when your discussion on welding techniques can be interrupted by "Xx88KillerAnon88xX" and turned into a discussion on something completely unrelated or unhelpful.

Enter the Rheos Foundation and Tessa L.H. Lovelace, its creator [link to website describing overall goals of the foundation, starting with Pyrodon and Darkpi and ending with Rheos One]. The Rheos foundation is a [cooperative/startup/collective/nonprofit, delete as appropriate] aiming for the stars: the stated goal of the project is to fund the creation of some rather lofty technologies allowing what they call a "post-scarcity society for creation and discovery", ranging from renewable methods of launching stuff into orbit, mass-solar-power, and ultimately ending with the creation of an orbital society: The eponymous Rheos station. They've a long road ahead of them: where does it start?

Social media. Tessa has some pretty big issues with social media as it stands; [Insert quote critical of FB/Twitter, with a lukewarm, neutral analysis of it leaning in favour].

Her solution is called Pyrodon: based on the federated instance-model of the Fediverse it breaks free of traditional moderation structures. Anyone can run a Pyrodon instance, and it's optimized to run on Pi hardware- you're not restricted by centralized moderation, and can pick and choose instances with themes and rules as you please. You can find an instance run by-and-for welding hobbyists, and the moderation will be fellow hobbyists. The key differences between this and Fediverse software is that Pyrodon doubles down on interest-based instances and structuring social interaction for learning and debate.

[Description of the truth-mapper feature]

Continuing on from that, you can also search your own posts by timestamp, tags, mentioned users, or text content - and cite them, making it much easier to link people to what you've already said as a built-in feature rather than laboriously linking it every time in a janky not-quite-functional way. As well, conversations are structured in easily collapsible trees: think like Reddit, where each reply can have multiple replies, and those replies can have multiple replies too- though each reply has a little button marked "collapse this reply and all replies to it" which does just that: so unhelpful tangents can be ignored, meaning you get just what you want to see.

Another critical difference between Pyrodon and other fediverse software is Pyrodon takes security and user-safety seriously. "We want you (the user) to have total control over your experience on Pyrodon." says project creator Tessa, and this reflects strongly in the design. Instance federation doesn't pass along all data immediately: things like search-ability require an agreement first, so as to prevent targeted harassment. Unlike Twitter, where trolls can just look for a convenient hashtag and find targets, Pyrodon's methods mean only users and their posts from instances that have explicitly allowed for that search will show up, meaning trolls will have a much harder time of finding you. Your community will only be open to other related communities that have good reasons to communicate: fostering a professional and learning-friendly atmosphere where long-term community and project building is valued over raw engagement metrics.

Posts will also have a subject as a part of them: you'll see a post with the subject line "my project putting my car back together!" and decide from that if it's worth reading- at which point you can click on the subject line, and it'll expand the whole post (there is no character limit on Pyrodon, instead it uses a character-limited subject line to prevent a single post taking up too much of your timeline), or if you're looking for something else you can just scroll on and find something more your speed.

Long-term, the goal is to have something like GitHub for more than coding. With the citations, subject lines and tree-structured conversations, the Rheos Foundation hopes to create something ideal for building projects and communities. A company could have an internal Pyrodon server for all employees: citations used to keep projects neat and tidy, replacing internal email and allowing for needed feedback and information exchange: all with better security and optimization. All information in Pyrodon is encrypted: a database dump will give you nothing but gibberish.

Pyrodon will be open-source, allowing anyone to open and run their own instance and tweak the software as needed: but the Rheos Foundation will maintain a formal server "for those who want to make in peace" which is the tagline of the whole foundation. You can find the kickstarter here: once funded it will be released for everyone. [KS/Gofundme/other link]

<Tessa Lovelace, the Unknown Elon Musk>

[This will specifically be an article about Tessa, using all available narrative information about her as the nominal head of the Rheos Foundation in the public eye, showing her to be this incredible inventor with similarly grand ideas (lofstrom loop front and center, alongside Rheos One) that just needs the bootstraps that Elon Musk's inheritance and family wealth provided for him. It will also be aimed squarely at techbros and other forms of technology fetishists as a form of passing the hat around for funding, all in the name of red-blooded american entrepreneurial spirit. The final purpose of this article will be nabbing some of Elon Musk's mindshare for better ends than he'll use it. Would like an interview for this one: be aware I'll have to quote mine it a little.]

<Who Are the Rheos Foundation?>

[This article will be a rundown of the concepts and projects that will take us from here at Pyrodon to Rheos One, suspended in void above among the stars. It'll be selling this wonderful, aspirational dream of a future for science and a future in space: perhaps we can use some classic sci-fi metaphor and reference. It will be a hype piece with enough stats, graphs, and facts to sell it to most people: this is a broad appeal piece.]