Squares is an ambitious project, designed as replacement for social media. It's an app that lets you follow and aggregate media feeds sourced from any compatible URL. The app is a downloadable product for iOS & Android (built on Capacitor) and for macOS / Windows / Linux desktop (built on Tauri).
The feeds must conform to the Webfeeds protocol, which is an emerging technology for self-hosted media distribution. If you're familiar with RSS, Webfeeds are conceptually similar, except the underlying format is a slight subset of HTML and CSS, rather that an XML format (RSS).
Squares brings a media consumption experience to the world which is ultra-minimalistic, distraction-free, ad & tracker free, and non-addictive.
Squares is currently pre-alpha. You can follow Paul Gordon on Twitter, who is developing this project under the principles of build-in-public.
The 1.0 release will be a focused Webfeed reader app without any tools to develop new feeds. In the meantime, feeds will need to be developed separately. Future versions of Squares will likely address this need.
In order to limit the maintenance overhead of reviewing and validating third-party code, we aren't accepting pull requests from code that isn't small and easily testable (bug fixes). That said, we're always interested in hearing your feature requests, so please submit these as an issue.
The team behind Squares is composed of free speech absolutists who value freedom and self-agency. The source code of this project is therefore licensed under public domain, also known as the "unlicense".