OpenBook is steered by the people who use it. Anyone can suggest a change, everyone votes, and the most-wanted ideas rise. This board is public so the direction of the platform is never decided behind closed doors.
Each card shows its raw community score (one human, one vote, the official tally). Where it differs, a sybil-filtered score is shown beside it for transparency.
Most social networks make money from your attention and your data. OpenBook is built on the opposite promise. You get a Facebook-style feed, friends, and photos together with Reddit-style communities and voting, all in one place, without the surveillance. Every claim below is checkable in the open source code.
OpenBook is funded by supporters who want it to exist. We never run ads and never sell your data, so you are the user, not the product being sold.
Supporting us unlocks a badge and more storage, nothing more. It can never buy a place in the feed, extra karma, or a louder vote. Everyone stays equal.
The feed ranking is simple and published in the code. Nothing is hidden, and no one is quietly throttled in the dark.
Export everything you have ever posted in one click, and permanently delete your account and all its media whenever you want. No lock-in.
Big changes go to a public vote, one human one vote, not a corporate boardroom. The roadmap above is steered by the people who use OpenBook.
Every line of OpenBook is public under the AGPL licence. If the rules and the code ever disagree, that is a bug you can point to. No black box to trust.
Every moderation action is in a public log, flagged content is judged by a jury of real members, and any action can be appealed.
Anti-bot and anti-sybil protections keep influence from being bought with fake accounts or bot farms. No engagement farming, no manipulation rings.