We want to fill the gap and create a non-profit social media alternative where privacy is paramount and users are no longer considered the product. Our incorporation as a non-profit entity helps ensure that our goals are aligned with our users.
Today’s social media platforms have become plagued with advertisements that obscure community-generated content. Furthermore, privacy concerns have risen to the surface, with more users wishing not to be tracked or have their personal data sold. We want to fill the gap and create a non-profit social media alternative where privacy is paramount and users are no longer considered the product. Our incorporation as a non-profit entity helps ensure that our goals are aligned with our users. We believe that the current monetization practices used in the for-profit social media industry have ultimately harmed users and weakened their social media experience. The algorithms that operate modern social feeds push down the voices of the community and artificially prop up promoted content. By creating a non-profit alternative, users can find respite in a platform that is not hell-bent on aggregating and selling their data.
Privacy practices are also a rising concern, with end-to-end-encryption technologies becoming more widely adopted by many SaaS providers. We wish to incorporate end to end encryption where possible, including group chats and information kept solely by the individual (saved posts, personal notes, etc). The open-source nature of our project would also provide transparency to our security and privacy practices, a feature which is absent in many proprietary codebases from the social media giants.
