About Chronfeed

Our Core Belief

Chronfeed is trying to fix social media. We're doing it not by doing better, but by trying to be better. Social Media can't be fixed with a better algorithm, or by spending more money on flashy gimmicks. It's going to take someone to stand up and say the one thing that just doesn't fly in big business circles.

It can't be about the money any more.

What we are

Chronfeed is an independently created social media platform, designed to do one job - make social media for social good.

We've not written an "algorithm". What you get in your feed is what your friends post or you subscribe to. Every post. Time ordered. Nothing more.

You won't get ads pretending to be posts. You won't see posts you don't know why they are there. Everything is there because you ask it to be.

We don't collect metrics on you. You just post posts, chat to people, join groups, follow people, follow hashtags, enjoy. We won't be watching

All your settings are set to at least "friends only" privacy by default. It is up to you to open up your account.

While some settings allow "private to all", most do not. For example pictures. If you post them here, they will be available to friends. This is deliberate, we aren't a file storage service.

Every post is labelled by AI. We are a small group, we don't have people to look at each post in real time. AI will be used to try and age-rate and summarise each post. AI will never remove or block a post.

All posts are filterable by you. You can hide any post or type of post you wish, by keyword, by political bias, or age appropriateness.

We do not moderate your posts. If someone reports your post, we will look at it. If it is illegal we will remove it. If it seems to be bullying or threatening others, we will remove it. If we find it neither, but we find it morally objectionable, we will not remove it. We are not policing your morals. Every report will be evaluated by a human, not a machine.

Users with a blue tick will have gone through an identification verification procedure to prove who they are.

You can always block any user to never hear from them again

Your Data

Your data is your data. We will never sell it to anyone else. You can always download your entire dataset.

If you delete your account, the account will be deleted. No going back, as it's really deleted, not just "marked as deleted".

About Adverts

The only advert you will see is the one on the right hand side of each page. That's it. Anything else is content from your friends and family, or your subscriptions.

We don't allow hyper-targeted adverts on our system. We DO allow keyword targeting, so if you are currently reading a post about shoes, you're more likely to see an ad about shoes. But that information stops there. We won't remember you read about shoes when you go to another page.

We also allow targeting ads to countries or cities. We didn't want to, but we realised that if we didn't, we lock out small businesses from advertising their services. Not really fair for them.

All ads have a chance to appear on any page that meets their criteria. Your data NEVER plays a part in which ads are shown.

Our Profits

If Chronfeed is what people want, and eventually many people use it and we make a profit, we pledge right here and now that we will donate 50% of all profits to good causes. Which good causes? That will be up to you. We will offer people the ability to vote for who gets the donation. It could be a charity, it could be a group doing social good, or it could be a startup company that has a revolutionary idea which could make the world a better place. The choice will be yours.

Our Promise to You

Social Media for Social Good isn't just our tagline, it's who we are.

We are starting small, but if we take off, we intend that Chronfeed isn't just a good social media platform.

We will donate 50% of any profits we make to good causes. And you choose which ones.

Right now, as we are in no danger of making a profit any time soon, this promise is just a promise for the future. But when we do, all users will have a say in where that profit will go. You will be able to nominate good causes to receive funds. You will be able to vote on which of the nominated good causes you would like to receive a donation.

The money will be split based on the proportion of the vote that the good causes receive (with a minimum threshold of 1% of the votes, or 1,000 votes, whichever is smaller). When you vote, your profile picture will have the option of showing the green tick, to show you have voted.

Donations will be made once per quarter, and everyone's green tick will reset at that point, and the cycle begins again.

The exact details as to how the money is split may change if we find it needs revision, or if we find the system is being abused. But, we will never change our promise to donate 50% of all profits. That is set in stone.