Communia

A few photos from the Communia x Fiona Shea Wellness & Wine meetup we hosted in LA last week! I talk a lot about the serious issues Communia solves for on LinkedIn, but a huge aspect of our success to date has been the FUN we’re able to offer within our in-app experience and to our broader social community. It was awesome to bring that IRL stateside for the first time! New friends were made, Fiona’s community was deepened, and we discussed the importance of social health in living our best lives. Nights out included! This is just the start of some exciting community empowerment projects we have in the pipeline… watch this space. 👀 #socialhealth #community #socialmedia #socialnetwork #creatoreconomy #womenshealth

How can we create safer, more supportive online spaces? Our #HealLA 2024 cohort member Communia is revolutionizing online spaces by creating a social networking app that prioritizes the needs and experiences of women. 🌟 Founder & CEO Olivia DeRamus shares" "On Communia, women are able to access a safe space to have even the most vulnerable conversations without fear of being further abused. Beyond that, they're able to build meaningful, long term connection with themselves and others using our unique social journaling format", DeRamus says. Communia's commitment to creating safe, inclusive, and supportive online spaces goes beyond technology. Communia envisions a future where everyone can share their stories, crowdsource advice, and support each other in a community free from trolls, bots, and fake accounts. Larta Institute is proud to stand with Communia and their dedication to fostering genuine connections and empowering individuals to share their experiences and support each other. 🌟 __________________ HealLA provides a free, 9-month accelerator program aimed at nurturing and scaling innovations that address healthcare insecurity, inequities, and lack of preventive care. The HealLA Bioscience and Healthcare Accelerator is supported by esteemed partners such as the California Office of the Small Business Advocate (CalOSBA), U.S. Small Business Administration, Gilead Sciences, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, BioscienceLA, Cedars-Sinai, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, UCLA Technology Development Group, Biocom California, MedTech Color, Consortium for Technology & Innovation in Pediatrics, California State University, Los Angeles, City of Hope, BioLabs, Rio Hondo College, Alliance for Southern California Innovation, Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center, Keck Graduate Institute, WuXi Biologics. Learn more about the 2024 HealLA cohort: https://lnkd.in/gKRdHdzm Learn more about the HealLA Bioscience and Healthcare Accelerator: https://lnkd.in/gi94ZB_f #HealLA #Bioscience #Healthcare #Innovation #CommunityHealth #Communia

We’re looking forward to participating and learning from a bunch of other great companies!

On this episode of the Social Discovery podcast, we’re delighted to be joined by Olivia DeRamus, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Communia. https://lnkd.in/d78uj2EX

Thanks for the shout out Phoebe Dodds! Social media as it stands today causes too much harm, especially (and ironically) towards its largest user group - women. We’re helping instead. 💪💁♀️

Today’s hot take courtesy of Newsweek! I spoke to them over the weekend around the American ban on TikTok - a move I am completely against. Not only do I think TikTok users will not simply funnel back into Instagram, but if the forced sale doesn’t go through, we’ll see a serious negative impact on creators (many of whom are women) and small businesses across America. If you haven’t personally tried to build a community online, it’s easy to assume an individual could simply move an audience from one platform to another, but that’s simply not the case - for reasons too extensive to try to cover in this post! One of the the most significant implications of the ban is that Meta will have a monopoly on how Americans communicate online. That is something we should all be extremely concerned about, especially given that they have recently made it more difficult for political and “social issue” based conversations to be seen on their platform. Right now, TikTok is pretty much the only large scale platform where those conversations aren’t suppressed or lost in a mire of toxicity like on X. There are up and coming alternatives like my own social media app Communia, which has even more inclusive content moderation policies, but ultimately no social network can fully replicate what makes another platform work, nor should that be our focus. Read the article to check out the thoughts that made it in, and shout out to Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger + Ahad Khan whose comments in the article I appreciated in particular! #tiktokban #socialmedia #socialnetwork #consumertech

I spoke to The Times last week about Meta’s recent decision to minimize political and “social issue” content. The move will make it harder for people on both sides of the aisle to be exposed to diverse views and objective reporting. This is especially concerning given that paid political content is still going to be accepted on the platform. For example, the Trump campaign is set to spend hundreds of millions designed to further promote its viewpoints and those of the people they’re targeting. I can also see this exacerbating the bias in favor of candidates running for office who have the biggest marketing budget - on either side of the political spectrum. At the same time, it’s going to be harder for individuals to participate in healthy public discourse and take part in the grassroots action often necessary to combat many of the social ills in the U.K. and around the world - the facilitation of which is the most important use case for social platforms like Instagram. Find more of my thoughts within the article! #britishpolitics #journalism #democracy #ethicatech #socialmedia #politics #elections

Thanks for the shoutout! Our founder Olivia DeRamus spoke at the event and, among other points, shared some of our safety innovations with the audience. In case you didn’t know, Communia requires everyone to verify their identity before they can communicate with others and places a high value on human moderation. Sometimes the best solutions are the simplest.

Thank you Layla Nicholson and The Daily Star for covering my concerns surrounding deepfake non consensual imagery following the recent Parliamentary round table on the issue! Check out a few of my thoughts from the article here and give it a read for the full breadth of my argument - plus the kind of action I hope to see from governments globally. “As AI develops, especially if we don’t match it step-by-step with AI safety innovation, we are going to see an overall rift between our understanding of what’s true and what’s not. Previously, we could watch a video and take it as proof that something did or did not happen. Now, when that medium of 'truth' is so easily manipulated, it will be almost impossible to tell what’s real from what’s fake. Victim-blaming will become even more frequent, and using our voices on the whole will become even scarier, especially in moments of crisis. The public has an overwhelming interest in regulating the safety protocols and practices of AI companies. And the time to act is now – not after the technology is further perfected and widely released.” #deepfakes #womensrights #onlinesafety #ai #ethicaltech #socialmedia #consent #metoo

#FutureOfBusiness Our top story today: The female-focused #social spaces finding solace in #human curation. The #founders of Communia (Olivia DeRamus) and MakeLoveNotPorn (Cindy Gallop) are carving out safe spaces in an #online world “where women just don’t fit very well” https://lnkd.in/eQHec2Vr #startup #business #socialmedia #media #ai