COLUMBIAN - Apr 14 - A privacy-focused social network, Slyde, launched in December following a short beta testing phase. The app has managed to make an outsized splash in a relatively short time, which attributed in part to a pair of videos about the app that unexpectedly went viral on the video-sharing platform TikTok earlier this year, causing daily sign-ups to rise from about 1K to about 7K. The main pitch for the site is that it minimizes the amount of user data it collects, such as by scrubbing metadata (location information and timestamps) from user-uploaded photos. The site does not use targeted advertising and offers the ad-free option.
by Anthony Macuk
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