About Seabird Reader

Who is Seabird Reader for?

Seabird is designed for readers and writers. As a reader, you can come here to find great writing and share the best of what you come across. As a writer, you can highlight your work and reach a broader audience. Writers can mark their own work as "Original Work," which appears in a dedicated feed and creates a portfolio on their profile.

How It Works

On Seabird Reader, all users are capped at three posts per day. The limit is to encourage curation over volume. We hope you'll devote them to sharing smart, funny, moving, engaging, and generally worthwhile writing.

Have more to say? That's great! But Seabird Reader isn't the place for it. If you're inspired to write something longer, we encourage you to take it to your own blog or newsletter and then come back here to share your writing on Seabird.

What inspired Seabird Reader?

We love the internet. There's just so, so much of it. Despite all the good things about being online, contemporary social media is awash in toxic negativity. We want to bring back the weird, wonderful, open internet, and limiting shares encourages users to put the best content forward.

We aim to avoid the kind of social media culture that incentivizes uncharitable readings, snarky takedowns, and superficial dunks. We believe there's value in reading things from perspectives you may not always agree with and sharing writing that challenges your views. That doesn't mean there's no place for criticism but we're tired of the superficial engagement that gets rewarded on other sites. We're genuinely committed to promoting a more open, diverse, and independent internet.

Seabirds venture from the comfort of the familiar shore to seek nourishment in exploration; we encourage you to do the same.

Wait! Is this a sneaky plan to bring back the blogosphere?

Quite possibly! We know that many share our nostalgia for a more open internet and our frustration with social media. We're not trying to turn back the clock, but we do seek to promote a more fulfilling ecosystem of writing, reporting, and ideas.

We've thought a lot about how to build a platform that supports that goal and Seabird Reader is the result.