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Meet Palmsy, the fake social network where your posts stay on your device forever

When you sign up to a new social network, you have zero friend, zero follower, zero like. But as you start posting content, you might get more and more

A new app called Palmsy is trying to act as social media methadone by letting you post anything and getting likes on them. The free app — which works on both iPhone and iPad — essentially reads your contact list to assign pretend likes to posts. In 2018, former Google Reader product manager Jason Shellen relaunched Brizzly as a website, which lets you put anything in a text box and hit send.

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