Advance Local today announced the launch of Pigeon, a meme-sharing Facebook Messenger bot that gives anonymous users the ability to share content or vote up or down posts shared by other users.
Initial trials began in late 2017 with memes, cartoon strips, funny tweets, and other forms of sticky visual content. With the launch out of beta, Pigeon plans to build communities to connect people around specific topics -- in a fashion inspired by Reddit or earlier social news apps like Digg and StumbleUpon that were also designed to take user votes into account.
Since launch, Pigeon has garnered 35,000 users who have shared 60,000 posts.
