What is WT Social?
WT Social is an open source, community-owned alternative social media platform launched in 2019. Its key features and selling points include:
- Open source code and transparency - anyone can inspect the codebase on GitHub
- User privacy and no ads - no algorithmic feeds or ads, less data collection
- Ethical platform - community-owned and funded through donations/subscriptions, not reliant on selling user data
- Chronological posting and commenting - no algorithms controlling visibility
WT Social was created by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales as a response to issues like data privacy, targeted advertising, and spread of misinformation seen on mainstream social networks. It aims to provide an ethical, community-focused alternative funded through user donations rather than advertising revenue.
As an open source project, WT Social hopes to foster transparency, user trust, and privacy. Its longer term goals are to scale up to compete with established players like Facebook while staying committed to its core values around ethics and privacy.