surprise midnight noterook
Noterook is a social platform where your posts live on your device, not on a server. You have a Book - you write in it, and when you find something you love on someone else's Book, you staple it into yours. That's how things spread: not by algorithm, but by people actively choosing to keep something. If a thousand people staple a post, it exists in a thousand places. No single point of failure, no one entity controlling it.
The server is a phonebook, not a filing cabinet. It knows your username, your avatar, and that's about it. Your content is stored locally, cryptographically signed so nobody can forge or tamper with it, and cached on the server only as an opaque blob it can't read. When you go offline, you choose how long that cache sticks around - anywhere from zero seconds to thirty days. If the server gets subpoenaed or hacked, there's nothing useful to take.
It's built for people whose posts could be used against them - queer folks in hostile places, artists, writers, kink communities, anyone who's watched a platform promise safety and then sell them out. No engagement metrics, no algorithmic feed, no ads (user self-service ads for shilling your own commissions nonwithstanding, at a later date). You own your copies. Export your data whenever you want. The architecture is the policy: if the server doesn't have your stuff, nobody can take it from you.
It's like tumblr but if it was made by someone that doesn't hate you and has no desire to add features for the sake of adding features. I'm going to finish the site and then I will let it live in maintenance mode forever occasionally doing security updates. If I ever decide that I no longer want to do Noterook, I will open source it for the community to take over.
https://noterook.net
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