People, not Platforms.

Social media preys on privacy, attention, and children.
If you've asked yourself how to stop supporting it, this is how.

Who lives here

Four kinds of people. One shared enemy.

Society Media is a human-first medium for businesses and people who want to reduce social media’s impact on our world.

Participants share in 60% of what this new medium earns. For as long as it runs.

DistrictOne home for a cooperative market ecosystem.
ReadyStacksExperts' market narratives blended with executable solutions.
SupportersQualified individuals who vouch for experts and ideas.
UsersCopy and run the ReadyStack to solve their problem.

Brands

50%of adults cut back on social media in 2025.
50%of Gen Z wish X had never been invented. 47% say the same of TikTok.
9%more paid per ad on Facebook and Instagram in 2025.

Underwrite a District in your name. Fund the Creators, Contributors and audiences building the economy the world is begging for.

Problem solvedYou were forced to fund platforms consumers had grown to hate, and starved for a visceral connection to them.
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Experts

1.8%of followers see the average Facebook Page post.
47%drop in LinkedIn reach for the average post in a single year.
57%of full-time creators earn below a living wage.

Bring the know-how and the writing your audience comes back for.

Problem solvedYour expertise fed the algorithms for free, while the next client stayed hard to find.
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Audiences

24.9%of Americans are functionally unemployed: jobless, stuck part-time, or earning under $26K a year.
$56is what Meta made from each person on its apps in 2025. They paid nothing.
40¢of every VC dollar raised goes to digital media giants. None of it goes to the people whose attention makes them rich.

Bring the trust you've earned to get the 40¢ digital media didn't earn.

Problem solvedYour word sold things on platforms every day, yet they kept the money.
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Consumers

73%of Americans worry they can't tell what's real from fake online.
71%of people regret something an influencer talked them into.
89%of people trust someone they know over any ad.

Buy through people, not platforms. Every purchase backs an alternative to social media.

Problem solvedA human-to-human alternative to synthetic social media voices that stands for economic sustainability and reverse extraction.
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Dam and divert.

Every cent Society Media pays a Supporter can be over $4 social media didn't get.

Dam the flow of money to social media. Divert it to where decisions are truly made: private conversations.Estimate: about $277 for a business to win one customer through Facebook ads (WordStream 2025 benchmarks), three businesses in a ReadyStack, and $5 in fees per run, 40% of it paid to the Supporter.

60¢ of every dollar goes back

$1.

Execution plans run on hosted automations: a welcome flow, a follow-up sequence, an event reminder. Each time one runs, it earns, and every dollar is cooperatively split.

20¢
40¢
40¢
20¢To Creators who build ReadyStacks.
40¢To people who vouch for a ReadyStack.
40¢To Makesbridge for hosting the medium, automations, and user support.

Social media created a crisis. Living markets work to defuse it.

Baobab problem tree: Big Tech Gate Keepers. Branches are the problems, roots are the nourishment, and the trunk is Reverse Extraction
Problem Tree – as seen in a Society Media District

How it works

Idea to earnings, in four moves.

1

Build

Founders start a District and work with Contributors to turn what they know into ReadyStacks.

A ReadyStack turns Creators' educational content into workflows people can copy and execute.
2

Vouch

Supporters vouch for Districts and ReadyStacks with their own link, to the people who trust them.

Every vouch carries the Supporter's code.
3

Execute

Businesses run the ReadyStack in their own Ops Studio, with data hosting, automation, agents, and real people on every job.

Hosted and supported by Makesbridge.
4

Earn

When those automations earn, the District earns, and the split is paid out.

Creators, Supporters, and Host own a share of the automation revenue.
The ReadyStack Workshop with the 40% share card above the fold
Society Media mobile app on a phone: vouching for live ReadyStacks
Society Media Ops Studio, powered by Makesbridge, self-funded since 2001: Universal Participation, Business License, Receive Payments, and the business's ReadyStacks
ReadyStack earnings: Creator 20%, Supporter 40%, Direct 100% and deposits over time
1 · Build – the ReadyStack Workshop

We've been practicing for over two decades.

Self-funded since 2001.

Districts' data infrastructure and automation run on Makesbridge, a company built brick by brick over twenty-five years with no outside investors to answer to.

No investors. No exit. No surrender.

2001Makesbridge founded, self-funded from day one
8.5 yrsAverage time a Makesbridge customer stays
24+ yrsOur longest customer relationship
60¢Of every dollar paid out to the people who built and vouched for the work

Makesbridge v. Fortune 500 Competition

Really Moving London UK property services

Live in 5 days. Pardot quoted two months.
  • £58,000+ saved in Salesforce licenses
  • 1 meeting booked per 16 emails
“I chose Makesbridge after researching Pardot… it has already allowed me to avoid a handful of pricey Salesforce development plans.”Diana Joseph, Marketing Manager

Vodafone New Zealand Regional sales teams

Launched in under 5 days, with no Salesforce admin.
  • 10 users across decentralized offices
  • No new Salesforce licenses needed

@realty Australian real estate network

Live in under 10 days. Grew to 500+ agents, 100% adoption.
  • One of the first to run email marketing on Salesforce Experience Cloud
  • Under $15 per agent per month
“We have since grown to over 500 agents, all using Makesbridge and their support is still outstanding.”James Taylor, @realty

Makesbridge is rated 4.93/5 on the Salesforce AppExchange.

From the founder

The logic behind an absurd idea.

Field study: Society MediaOct 8, 2026What Would Happen If Google and Meta Paid 60¢ of Every Dollar To Creators and Their Audiences?An experiment in paying people fairly for trust. Jay AdamsSep 29, 2026Cooperative Commerce: How to Beat Silicon Valley's Scale TrapLessons from tech evangelism: win small, compound the leverage. We studied what it takes to beat Amazon. The market is ready.Sep 25, 2026Challenging Amazon: My Study at MIT I-CorpsThe market is ready. What's missing is coordination. The Death of ReachMar 16, 2026Why nobody knows where the next customer isA $3.2 trillion go-to-market industry doesn't understand there's no such thing as a buyer.

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Participate in living markets

Lead with love, ferocity, and endurance.

Approval is required to maintain standards that ensure sustained outcomes and a high-quality experience for all participants.

Free

You earned trust, use it to vouch for licensed participants’ work. You get the 40¢ instead of social media.

$0

Vouch for ReadyStacks and earn 40% each time a ReadyStack you vouched for is run
(approval and Stripe required)

  • Share ReadyStacks
  • Connect with fellow District participants and individuals with shared values
  • Test the waters on founding your own District and creating ReadyStacks
Apply

Business License

Respond to what half of adults and Gen Z are telling you:
“Social media is hurting us.”

Licensed businesses keep 100% of sales. The people who recommend you get paid by this new medium, not by you.

$50 /month
  • Turn on the 40% — Supporters who vouch for your ReadyStacks earn 40% of their fees
  • Earn as a Creator — 20% of the fees your ReadyStacks generate, paid in real time
  • Host District calls — meet with your District on video
  • Edit your video — trim and cut the video in your ReadyStacks
  • 5 seats — you and up to 4 colleagues from your business
  • Unlimited Districts and ReadyStacks
  • Marketing Platform & Automation — 5,000 mass emails and 2,500 triggers a month included
  • Live platform support
  • Month to month — no contract, cancel any time
Apply for a Business License

Mass email and automation triggers are usage-based: the first 5,000 mass emails and 2,500 triggers each month are included, and usage beyond that follows the current schedule shown in the app. See our Terms of Service (Sections 5 and 6) for the full details.

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