Introduction

Perhaps you are wondering why does Talesmith exist or what exactly is it? Here you will find your answer.

Why does this exist?

Glad you asked.

Talesmith exists as a counter-weight to the centralised social media doom scrolling and controlling algorithms that decide what you see.

It exists because modern social media is built around 'you as a product'. Your data is used to find out more and more about you and your friends, what you like and even in some cases why you like it. They do this not only to earn advertising revenue from your data but also the selling of your personal data to data brokers.

Talesmith exists because we don't need an algorithm recommending what it wants us to see, and obfuscate who we really want to see.

Talesmith exists because privacy matters.

Talesmith exists as a reversal of the bad elements of centralised controlled social media.

What is Talesmith?

Talesmith is distributed, decentralised and capable of complete privacy to complete public.

You decide:

• where your data is stored
• who you connect with
• what you see and interact with

Talesmith is:

• privacy-first
• decentralised
• distributed

Own it, its yours.

TL;DR

It exists as a counter to everything being centralised and controlled, including you, your data and what you get to see and interact with.

Talesmith is software, that you can install on your own domain, and be in control of your content, who you connect to and what you see. It is a social network built with privacy first.