Built to be useful,
not compulsive.
Easybie brings conversations, video, reading, messaging and publishing together in one place. Share. Connect. Express. — three words that are also the whole brief.
Most of what makes a social platform unpleasant was a decision somebody made on purpose: a feed reordered to keep you there, a badge with a price on it, a report button that doubles as a weapon, a page that loads a dozen trackers before you have read a word. Every one of those is a fork in the road, and this is a list of which way we went.
9 decisions
Latest is actually latest
Three feeds: the people you follow, a suggestion feed you can ignore, and everything in the order it was posted. Nothing is quietly reordered to hold your attention, because a feed that decides what you want is a feed you cannot use to find anything.
Badges cannot be bought
Seven kinds, each saying what sort of account this is rather than who paid. If a badge could be bought it would only ever tell you who had money, and you would be right to ignore it. Read the verification policy ›
Nothing loads from another company while you read
A shared video shows our own thumbnail and our own play button. Until somebody presses it, YouTube is not contacted and does not learn that you read the post. A feed of ten videos would otherwise report every visitor ten times over before they had done anything. The one exception is the sign-up form, the password-reset form and the data-request form, which carry a Cloudflare challenge to keep automated sign-ups out; it is on those three pages and nowhere else. What leaves the server ›
Reporting is not a weapon
A report asks a person to look. Nothing is hidden automatically by report count — that mechanism is precisely what coordinated pile-ons exploit, and it turns every dogpile into a working censorship tool. One report per person per thing, and a rate limit across all of them.
Nobody sees a tag until that person approves it
Somebody putting your name on their post is a claim about you, so it waits for your answer — everywhere, including on the post itself. Approve or decline from the notification. Declining is permanent: the same person cannot tag you in that post again.
No face recognition, and there never was any
You can name people on a photograph by clicking a face and choosing them. Nothing looks at the picture: what is stored is a rectangle somebody drew and the name they chose, which is a statement about the photograph rather than a measurement of it. There is no face template, here or anywhere.
An edit keeps its history
Posts stay editable for a day. Every edit writes a revision — the first one records the original wording — and the post is marked as edited in public, linking to a history anybody who can read the post can read. A history only the author can see is not a history.
Your photographs do not carry your address
Every uploaded image is re-encoded, which strips the GPS coordinates a phone writes into it. That matters most on a profile picture, which is very often taken at home.
The exit is a door, not a maze
Export everything, or delete the account, without writing to anybody or clicking through a page that asks whether you are sure four times. What we collect ›
What is here Copy a link to this section
Feed
Posts, pictures, polls and links, in the order you choose.
Watch
Video people have shared, gathered in one place instead of scrolling away by Thursday.
Read
Long-form: articles, notes, diaries and wiki pages. A diary is private unless you say otherwise.
Explore
Search across people, posts and tags, and what is being talked about right now.
Groups
Rooms with their own rules and their own members. Public, private, or not listed at all.
Events
Gatherings with a date, a place and a guest list. Everybody who answered is told if the time or the place moves.
Messages are there too, and they open only between people who follow each other — so a stranger cannot put something in your inbox. You can hold up to five accounts and switch between them, set the text size and the colour, and turn the numbers on your own posts off if watching them is not doing you any good.
Still being built Copy a link to this section
Easybie is in beta. Things are missing, some of them obvious, and verification is granted by hand because there are few enough of us that a person can still check each one. That will not scale, and when it stops working we will say so rather than quietly automate it.
Easybie is made by Arifur Rahman and is written in the open about what it does: this page, the verification policy and the privacy notice are meant to be read, not agreed to. If something on them is not true of the product, that is a bug — say so through the help desk, which is inside the product rather than an email address on a page. A published inbox fills up with spam and the real messages get lost in it; a conversation in your own Messages does not.
Have a look for yourself.
Everything above is checkable in about a minute inside the product.