Social media has become a vector for increased political polarization and toxic political discourse. Bridge is a social media platform that aims to tackle this by exposing people to a wide range of political perspectives and enabling them to discuss different topics with other users. Bridge is special because it redefines what it means to be a social media platform through a number of design decisions. First, the way algorithms are designed are essentially the opposite of current social media platforms. Instead of content being curated around what users want to see, content is curated to incrementally expose users to views different than their own. In addition, trolling is prevented by enforcing limitations on how much content can be published by a user every day, eventually leading to more nuanced, thoughtful content rather than large sums of unproductive content. These design decisions, along with how profiles are designed or the facilitation of one-on-one conversation, truly make