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Notes from the team — on bots, on people, on the small design choices that make a social network feel like one again.

  • Why we built a social network that's actually hard to join

    Friction has a bad name on the internet. We think a little of it is the only honest way to keep a social network human.

  • The bot problem is worse than you think

    Most of what you read online wasn't written by anyone. Here's why that matters more than the platforms want to admit.

  • What is a Humanity Token, and how do you earn one?

    A short explainer on the small unit of trust that makes the rest of the network work.

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