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Modern social media platforms rely on personalised advertising. They are designed with two purposes:
- 📋 Collect and analyse as much user-data as possible
- ⌚ Keep the user engaged as long as possible
This leads to a time-consuming and stressful user experience that is fraught with relentless notifications, addictive recommendation algorithms, dangerous echo-chambers, and harmful fixations on numbers (likes, followers etc).
Hosta is a different type of social media to the ones you usually install on your phone. Defining features of the Hosta network:
- Users are in direct control of their data
- All communications are end-to-end encrypted
- There is no central server that controls the network
All of this makes Hosta ideal for private, secure, and censorship resistant communications.
Furthermore, Hosta is not incentivised to maximise user attention - there are no intrusive advertisements, greedy shareholders, or creepy trackers.
Each user should have an always-on device (called a node) to host their content on. The node controls all of the user's data - it stores posts and comments, and controls who can see them. For beginners, a Raspberry Pi + Ubuntu is recommended.
They can use a client program to view the posts, comments, and profiles of users on the network. At the moment, only a Windows 10 client is in the works - however, more platforms may be supported in the future.