Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales reveals his new social media platform ‘Trust Cafe’

Wales announced the news on LBC’s Tonight with Andrew Marr.

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has revealed to Andrew Marr he is launching a new social media platform ‘Trust Cafe.’ Speaking on Tonight with Andrew Marr on LBC, Jimmy said, ‘the idea is to replace social networks that really feed on attention, and like and shares.’

He also described the changes to X/ Twitter since it was taken over by Elon Musk as a ‘shame’ adding he believes ‘something will replace it if he [Musk] keeps it up.‘

“I have a small pilot project, you can go and see it at TrustCafe.io. We’re not really trying to publicise it; you’re the first journalist I’ve actually mentioned it to, but there we are.”

“I hope my team doesn’t get mad at me. But, you know, we’re a small pilot project, we’ve got people discussing and talking. And the idea is to replace social networks that really feed on attention, and likes and shares and all that and instead, the votes of trustworthiness based by trustworthy members of our community. We’ll see how it goes. This is completely independent from Wikipedia, by the way. But yes, I mean, I think that what’s happened with Twitter/ X is a shame because as you know as a journalist, it’s been a real part of the public conversation for a long time. And it seems to be becoming unravelled. I’m not sure what can replace it. I mean, I think something will replace it if he keeps it up. But I think we’re going through a very rough time as far as that goes.”