Press

Press room for a real-world civic network.

Social Media 2 is a public-facing attempt to rebuild local civic life through bounded offline rooms, citizen governance, and no attention marketplace.

Public lottery-selected civic roles on agenda cards.

Spokesperson

Chris Royse, Polis cooperative founding steward. Contact email: [email protected].

Press kit

Download logo SVG/PNG, brand colors, screenshots, and the one-page brief.

Download press kit

What to inspect

Start with the status page, governance docs, and invariants.

What not to claim

Do not describe Social Media 2 as a social network or event listing app.

Launch frame

United States founding membership is live city by city.

Approved soundbites

1. Social Media 2 helps citizens leave the screen and meet in serious, bounded rooms.

2. Social Media 2 is built around offline gatherings, sortitioned governance, and no attention marketplace.

3. Social Media 2 measures civic reconnection, not app time.

Explain it to a stranger

Social Media 2 helps people build a real life again by turning a few answers into reviewed invitations to nearby gatherings, third places, and civic rooms. It is not a scrolling stream or popularity network; private pages, public evidence, and cooperative governance keep the product aimed at offline friendship, belonging, and local responsibility.