Wouldn’t you rather have a social network that respected your privacy, resisted abuse and harassment, rewarded content creators and was open by default? We would too, that’s why we’re building the world’s first mainstream client for a truly distributed social network.
Planetary is an offline, local first, resilient social network which will keep working even if your internet goes out. Your phone can peer directly with your neighbors keeping you connected.
Planetary is built on an open protocol, Secure Scuttlebutt, which means that you can always leave and take your community with you. If you don’t love our services, you’re never stuck with us just because your connections are all here.
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.
We’re funded by providing services you actually want to pay for, not by selling your data or attention.
There’s no one big database where your posts are stored. You can connect to our relay servers or make your own.
Your posts belong to you. You choose how and when to share them.
You only see posts from your friends and their friends, meaning it’s much harder for people to abuse or harass.
Your private posts can only be seen by you and the people you send them to. Not even we can see them!
Planetary only downloads content from your friends and their friends - it’s impossible for people to spam you.
In the wilderness? At a festival? Download posts and send yours out through peer to peer connections.
Like email or the web, Planetary is built on an open protocol that no one company can own.
Don’t like Planetary? Pick up and take your identity, posts, and friends to another compatible app.
Keep some posts back for paid subscribers. And you can choose precisely how much you want to charge.
No one company should own the Internet’s public spaces, which is why we’re working with —and contributing back to— the open source Scuttlebutt project. Their core technologies let us recreate a social network experience, but in an open decentralized way that no one organisation can dominate.
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CEO
1st Employee Twitter / Researcher MIT Media Lab. Co-founded and built neo.com consultancy to $15m/annual revenue - sold to Pivotal in 2016.
Business Development AdvisorRan BuzzFeed’s Open Lab, Document Cloud, and the freelance futures initiative at AIR. Taught journalism at Columbia, CUNY, and UC Berkeley.
Henry is a German hacker who programs in Go, wears black, and is passionate about privacy.
Christian is a software engineer and peer-to-peer technologist living in Portland, Oregon. He works on Planetary's distributed systems and writes open source software to improve the Secure Scuttlebutt ecosystem.
Martin holds a degree in Software Engineering from ORT Uruguay University. He started his career developing mobile apps at Codeshaped and has taught programming to deaf high school students and led sign language workshops with school children. He helps organize Creative Mornings Montevideo.
Designer and front-end developer with a background in Architecture. Former interaction designer at Cubox, Neo. Co-founder at Zimmic, CraftedCode, IxDA Montevideo. Former front-end developer at Quantstamp.
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