We Built a Platform That Respects You

Three weeks ago, me and a few friends set out to build something weirdly ambitious: a social media platform that doesn't sell your soul: Node Social.

No ads. No selling your data to the highest bidder. Just humans, talking.

Why we're doing this?

We've all felt it. Social media today is loud, messy, and designed to keep you scrolling, not thinking. So we decided to build something that puts people before profits.

Our platform is built on two core principles:

• Privacy: no tracking, no sneaky cookies,
• and Freedom: as long as you're not a bigot or breaking the law, you're welcome.

The tech stuff (for the curious)

We built the backend in Go with the Gin framework. For the database, we use PostgreSQL, because ACID is amazing. We have a fully working auto-deploy-to-VPS CI pipeline with linting and error checking. We use Docker for dev testing. The frontend is written in TypeScript with the React framework. And it's all self-hosted. We also use Redis for caching data from the database.

And the API is fully documented at docs.nodesocial.org.

Try it yourself

You can check out the platform at nodesocial.org. It's still very experimental, but (most) important features already work. Go ahead and sign up, post something, and break stuff, gently, of course.

Want to contribute?

Though the platform is not open-source, anyone who is passionate is welcome to contribute.

We're building this in our free time and we're not VC-funded. So no, we sadly can't pay contributors, yet.

But if you're:

• a dev who believes in digital freedom
• a designer with a hate for boring UIs
• a community builder who wants to shape something new ...then come hang out with us.

We'd love your help. We'd love your ideas. We'll credit you properly, listen to you, and treat you like a human, not like another object for monetization.

Join our Discord server at: https://discord.gg/nkt6GScq

Support us (if you want to)

If you like what we're doing and want to buy us a coffee, or several, here's our Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/saynedbread

Totally optional. But very appreciated.