Dev pitches Quilt: an anti-GenAI social network built on consent and privacy
WellsLucasSanto · x · 2026-10-17
Wells Lucas Santo shares a design draft for Quilt, a text-first social platform he has envisioned for four years as an anti-GenAI alternative to X that takes privacy and moderation seriously.
- Consent-first design: inspired by Jane Im's affirmative-consent framework, giving users real agency over feeds, content protection, and interactions instead of default data selling.
- Safety for marginalized communities and moderation treated as core features.
- The name references narrative quilting — collaborative storytelling across threads.
He admits he doubts it will succeed commercially; the post is a first draft inviting feedback, not a shipped product.
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