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Doesn't care enough about accessibility/usability to make a simple content page noJS-accessible...

Centralized...

Uses Recaptcha for contact form...

I think I'll have to pass.

Looks amatuerish, why is the landing page url appended with '/home'?

Furthermore try entering 'https://www.okuna.io/en' and you get just a header and footer with an intermediate page with only 'loading...".

No offense, but this looks like a hackathon project slapped together in 6 hours.

Does anyone else hate these super-vague headlines? A domain by itself should not be an acceptable headline.
Apparently it's open source, the repos can be found here:

https://github.com/OkunaOrg

Most of the reactions I saw here are rather negative. Did just no one of the other commenters dig deeper and simply react pessimistic to anything with the label "social network" or are there substantial issues, that I missed?

I think it's more like people are sceptical of anyone claiming to be "ethical and privacy focused" while taking VC money...
The Google/Fitbit acquisition is still fresh in everyone's minds. That's going to color the perception of any new app/site that has the potential to gather information about you for some time to come.
"Beta coming mid 2019"

Oops.

In case you read the comments before clicking the link:

> an ethical social network for a brighter tomorrow.