We are a privacy-first, community-centered, alternative to the dominant paradigm of social media. We take our responsibilities for maintaining safe community spaces extremely seriously, which is why we work on the principle of freedom of speech, not freedom of reach.
Important information is increasingly communicated in digital spaces. It’s crucial that these spaces help us make sense, together, of the world around us. We don’t all have to agree with each other, but our digital spaces should help us better understand different perspectives. They should provide the foundation for finding common ground, to agree on the fundamental facts of what we’re seeing and experiencing. To the greatest extent possible the space should support people to verify and hold each other accountable, with measured and proportionate sanctions for those who act or speak in bad faith.
A shared space must create an experience where people feel, at a bare minimum, welcome and safe, and then it must make them feel comfortable and secure enough to stick around. But to be truly public, it must be accessible, inviting, and hospitable. This our challenge, openness to the outsider, without compromising safety for the insider.
Above all, public spaces cannot exclude, or discriminate against, people for reasons unrelated to the explicit purpose of the space, or to the shared challenge or struggle of that community.
When a space is subject to the interests and manipulations of invisible or opaque forces everyone feels it. Both the space itself, and the members, should understand that they should not allow their private ends and goals to influence the way they design the space, or interact with other players within it. People have personal responsibility for their actions and intents, and nobody is above being held accountable for deviating from the rules, norms, ethics, and standards of behaviour writ into the boundaries of the space.
Tuvens is a fully GDPR compliant, privacy-first social network. Our business model is intentionally designed to avoid the invasive trappings of legacy social media. You can use our site without creating an account, or sign up without giving your real name. You will never be pressured to verify by ID because we employ a peer verification model. We don’t sell user data and you can delete your account fully at any time.
Read more about your privacy on Tuvens on our FAQs or on our accompanying blog post written by our resident privacy expert, Kathrin Gardhouse.
Our mission is to prioritize truth and good faith debate by amplifying local subject-matter authorities and creating self-regulating communities. Instead of relying on click-maximizing algorithms to choose what information people see, communities are in charge, and individuals can choose who they trust. A broad range of views is beneficial for society, and freedom of speech and association should be upheld. However, it’s important to note that freedom of speech is not the same as freedom of reach, and nobody has a right to an audience.
Above all, we will never insert our personal politics to manage the discourse, we will follow explicit and transparent rules that we set out for you.
Provenance by Design is a privacy-first peer verification or vouching system that ensures content suggested or amplified on our platform is tied to real people engaged in the activities they claim to be. Community vouched and a mix of peer- and ID-verified users offer protection against social engineering, so that users can be assured that their data is safe from fraudsters and bad actors trying to manipulate their online behaviour, and regulators can rest easy knowing that our system maintains the highest level of quality and verifiability to ensure the authenticity of all content.