Gyre

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...

Gyre is a free social network. Not 'free as in beer', like every other social network, but 'free as in freedom': it is predicated on anti-capitalist and anti-racist principles of social and spiritual freedom.

Features

Your traffic is untraceable

All traffic is routed via Tor. You can't be surveilled by cops or monetized by capital.

Be as anonymous as you wish

Design a profile and account which is as anonymous as you want to make it. If you don't reveal yourself, your traffic or behavior elsewhere on the internet won't either.

Best of what's out there

We present a simplified set of social media features drawn from everything that's out there and then some:

• Profile

  • Curate a profile with photo and posts (e.g. Twitter)
  • Show profile to world (e.g. Twitter)
  • Show profile only to friends (e.g. Facebook)
  • Show profile only to your local area (e.g. Nextdoor)

• Posting

  • Post to the entire world (e.g. Twitter)
  • Post to your friends (e.g. Facebook)
  • Post to your surrounding area by a distance radius (e.g. Nextdoor)
  • Anonymously up-vote or down-vote posts (e.g. Reddit)
  • Post anonymously or from your account (new from Gyre)

• Organizing

  • Host events and invite others (e.g. Facebook)
  • Host events like protests anonymously (new from Gyre)
  • Anonymously pin on a map sites of danger, like police (e.g. Waze)

• Messaging

  • Message securely with encrypted contents (e.g. Signal)
  • Message securely with untraceable metadata (new from Gyre)

Open-source and community run

Not just non-profit, we're anti-profit.

Design

Design details are changing rapidly, but these are what we have so far.

App

The 'client' or app is made with KivyMD, a variant of Kivy, a cross-platform mobile development framework in Python. Python is an easy and versatile progamming language to learn, which keeps the code accessible to as many people as possible.

Server

The server also runs on Python, serving a graph database powered by Neo4j.