Cosmos47, a public chronological feed without algorithms

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Cosmos47, a public chronological feed without algorithms

I’ve worked as a B2C product manager and co-founded two social-media-related startups (one acquired and one closed down), but I was never particularly good at conventional social networking. I don’t enjoy cultivating followers, optimizing for engagement, or wondering how a post will perform. Yet sometimes I want to share something and I want people to get a reasonable chance of finding it. Sure, I can start a blog or an X account (which obviously I have) but when I post something, usually nobody sees it or interacts with it. So... I've built Cosmos47 - a public social feed that shows all posts chronologically. One feed that appears the same to all users, from all over the world. No algorithm or ranking people by popularity. All posts are analyzed with AI and each post gets tagged with its language, topics, tone, format, length, location, and other characteristics. Readers can then filter the feed themselves (if they wish). The idea is distribution through relevance rather than popularity. Full Disclosure The entire website was built using AI tools, including the frontend, backend, and much of the work required to make a client-rendered app accessible to search engines. The main platform was Base44, but I've used their MCP (with ChatGPT 5.6 Sol) and added a Cloudflare layer that returns crawler-readable public pages, metadata and sitemaps. It’s still an early experiment. Most of the content currently on the platform is actually AI slop test content that I created to test multilingual feeds, filtering, moderation, embeds, search and indexing. I’m not trying to present this as an existing community and my next challenge is to attract real people who genuinely want to try it out. I’d appreciate any feedback you want to share!