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Cosmunity<\/a> is a new social network for people who want to keep the experience of Comic Con (or another geek event of your choosing) going all year long.<\/p>\n Co-founder and CEO Cole Egger recalled attending a Dallas Comic Con (now known as Fan Expo Dallas<\/a>) and being \u201cblown away by the size.\u201d However, \u00a0he found fans who were \u201cfrustrated\u201d by the difficulty of staying connected after the event. And similarly, vendors were looking for a way to \u201csell products directly to their target audience.\u201d<\/p>\n So commerce is a big piece of Cosmunity \u2014 and the main way it plans to make money, although the startup is waiving transaction fees for the rest of the year. Retailers can create profiles on the service and sell props, costumes, comic books, artwork and more.Sure, you might be able to buy many of these products elsewhere on the Internet, but Egger said the difference is that Cosmunity will be \u201cexclusively geek.\u201d<\/p>\n While Egger emphasized that Cosmunity is a peer-to-peer marketplace \u2014 which means the company isn\u2019t vetting all the retailers \u2014 he said the team will do its best to verify retailers\u00a0who are selling licensed products and to remove fraudulent accounts.<\/p>\n Co-founder and COO Zac Cooner said one of the other big goals is to make people comfortable with \u201cexpressing their true selves\u201d \u2014 maybe by sharing that costume photo that you\u2019re too embarrassed to post on Facebook. So there\u2019s a newsfeed combining social updates, product listings, event info and other geek content.<\/p>\n Of course, \u201cgeek\u201d is a pretty broad term \u2014 different geeks have different interests. Some of us,\u00a0for example,\u00a0really want to see the latest Star Trek<\/em> news but couldn\u2019t care less about new toys. Egger said users can already control what they see by deciding which other users to follow, but there are more features planned that will \u201creally help customize that experience.\u201d<\/p>\n I also wondered how Cosmunity would handle issues like trolling, particularly with the way some geek subcultures have gotten caught up in conservative controversies like Gamergate<\/a>. Cooner noted that each user can block other users, delete any comment\u00a0on their own posts and report malicious activity.<\/p>\n \u201cAt this moment, we don\u2019t necessarily have a stance about guiding the political tone of users on our platform,\u201d Cooner said. \u201cWe do take a strong stance [on tone] \u2014 we believe that this is a positivity-driven community.\u201d<\/p>\n