Fixing what social media broke
The platform is a response to a familiar pattern: identity‑driven platforms push people to perform, polarise, and optimise for reach. Follower counts, quote‑tweets, and outrage cycles reward loudness over nuance.
Stancio deliberately removes those incentives. No profiles, no audiences, no infinite feed. Just temporary spaces where people can think together without carrying a public persona from room to room.
European communication style
The project is shaped by a specifically European sensibility: slower pacing, space for doubt, and an interest in context rather than hot takes. Rooms are meant to feel closer to a town square conversation, a café debate, or a late‑night train discussion than a global stage.
The Sprint 1 and Sprint 2 plans focus on tiny, composable pieces: ephemeral rooms, anonymous nicknames, consensus maps, and later AI bots that behave like patient participants instead of content machines.
Why consensus maps and bots?
The consensus map exists so you can understand a room without reading every message. It turns a stream of posts into a picture of where people stand and how heated things are.
In later iterations, low‑frequency AI bots keep rooms alive and readable when there are not many humans around. They are designed to be slow, explain their reasoning, and help newcomers grasp the conversation instead of flooding it.