He Started a Social Network Alone. Then 5 Million People Signed Up Issam Hijazi launched UpScrolled after users alleged censorship on other platforms. Nine months later, its user base is soaring—while Hijazi tries to catch up with his own success.

Great interview in Wired with @upscrolled.bsky.social CEO Issam Hijazi!

The @techforpalestine.org session that sets the tone. Ensure you're in the room to hear it first!

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Wasn't he in the Epstein files?

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Why Paul Biggar Is Building a Tech World without Big Tech YouTube video by Out Loud with Ahmed

Building a Tech World without Big Tech

Watch my interview with @ahmedeldin.bsky.social

youtu.be/y9poJrS_VgI

For all the idiots applauding Anthropic yesterday

It's not unmoderated. It just grew too fast for the moderators - they've since added tons more and should have the banned stuff under control

Google restored it

Bring new stuff to Upscrolled, it's for everything

This was an error from brand new moderators during a turbulent frantic scale up. Issam called out that the trans community was welcome in his last video

⁦UpScrolled⁩ ⁦(@UpScrolled)⁩ / ⁦UpScrolled⁩ Straight from our Founder & CEO @Issam - here's how we're taking action against harmful content and putting user safety at the heart of everything we build. Yo…

So refreshing to see social media that cares - about everyone. Makes other platforms' community guidelines & policies seem so unserious. Bravo, upscrolled.
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🎥 WATCH | UpScrolled announced today that it has surpassed 2.5 million users, up from just 150,000 in early January. “Big tech has proven that it is not ethical,” founder @iHijazi said at the Qatar Web Summit in Doha tonight. “They have enabled genocide. I’m going to say that clearly. The technology they’ve provided to certain regimes has enabled the killing of people within a very small area. I think we all know where that is—Gaza,” he told The Economist’s @glcarlstrom . In the clip below, Hijazi lays out what big tech gets wrong and why he felt compelled to create @realUpScrolled .

See new posts Conversation UpScrolled @realUpScrolled When we launched six months ago, we grew to 150,000 in early January. Four days ago, we reached 1 million users. As of today, we hit 2.5 million users. #UpScrolled

🎥 WATCH | UpScrolled announced today that it has surpassed 2.5 million users, up from just 150,000 in early January.

“Big tech has proven that it is not ethical,” founder Issam Hijazi said at the Qatar Web Summit in Doha tonight.

“They have enabled genocide. I’m going to say that clearly. The...

We literally hired the moderators on Wednesday or Thursday, with 40,000 report backlog

The entire company was one guy til a week ago. I understand your concerns and n word handles weren't an issue til this week and they're getting addressed now

Thanks, will read

Sorry about that. Can you send details to support@upscrolled.com to get reinstated? New mods went too hard with bans, working on it

Sorry, teething problems from insane growth. It's not anti any of those things

It's not

Trust me you are welcome there. Teething problems from going 10x ing user base in a week

Not automated, just new moderators. Went from 180k users and 1 part time moderator to 1M users in 3 days. Catching up

Yes all the content moderators are brand new and are making mistakes. It's being rectified

This was in error. Email support@upscrolled.com with details and account info and this will be addressed

If you're going to WebSummit, come to the T4P meetup on Tuesday at 4pm at Meetup 2. It's right before the Palestine meetup in the same spot. We'll have founders from T4P projects like UpScrolled and Thaura!

We're working on it!

Yeah it's number one on the app store and a million people just joined