Planetary puts people first. Our algorithms are open source. You can choose which one you want to use and read the code to understand how it works.
Planetary for a truly distributed social network that doesn't keep your data in the cloud. Your data is hosted by your friends through cooperative mutual aid.
Planetary is all about communities. Share what you love with likeminded people and make the network feel more like you.
Planetary and secure scuttlebutt are decentralized but they are not a cryptocurrency or blockchain project. The protocol puts people not money at its center. We work on mutual aid, democratic self-governance, and cooperation.
Planetary is building a social media commons. That includes the right of our users to see, modify, and redistribute the application and its underlying code.
We’re working together to change the world and we want you to join us.
Open Source, Open Society. Look under the hood at how planetary is built and roll up your sleeves add to the app yourself.
Get in touch with the planetary team and fellow users of the platform on discord. We answer questions and host discussions about the app, community, and protocol.
No software is perfect, we encourage you to report bugs and also behavior of users which is in violation of our terms of service.
Planetary is about restructuring how social software works, from the bottom up. That’s a new way of thinking and we’ve written a bunch about what that means.
Planetary runs over the Secure Scuttlebutt network. SSB is an open platform, and there are already apps for Android, Firefox and most operative systems.
We're working hard to smooth out the initial experience on Planetary but if you want to join the community over another platform, here are some of the best options:
You have something to say and you’d like to build community without building someone else’s brand. We’re here for creators and artists, makers and hackers.
Your posts belong to you. You choose how and when to share them. Your data is stored locally and shared directly with your followers.
There’s no one big database where your posts are stored. You can connect to our relay servers or make your own.
We’re funded by providing services you actually want to pay for, not by selling your data or attention.
Your posts belong to you. You choose how and when to share them.
1st Employee Twitter / Researcher MIT Media Lab. Co-founded and built neo.com consultancy to $15m/annual revenue - sold to Pivotal in 2016.
Product leader with 10+ years experience championing user needs to solve complex problems for Healthcare, SAAS, and CivicTech organizations.
Shaina has a background in psychology and social work and passionately aims to safeguard humanity at the center of how we work.
Matt is an iOS developer and cypherspace explorer who loves mixing big tech usability with humane tech spirit.
Filip is a software developer enthusiastic about open software and hardware. He is interested in helping with wider adoption of decentralized systems.
Sebastian is a product designer focused on making blockchain technologies usable for the masses. Co-founded Zimmic, CraftedCode, IxDA Montevideo. Ex Cubox, Neo, Quantstamp.
Martin holds a degree in Software Engineering from ORT Uruguay University. Co-founded Codeshaped, has taught programming to deaf high school students and led sign language workshops at schools. He helps organize Creative Mornings Montevideo.
Ran BuzzFeed’s Open Lab, Document Cloud, and the freelance futures initiative at AIR. Taught journalism at Columbia, CUNY, and UC Berkeley.
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