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The Freed Manifesto

A declaration of digital independence.

The Problem

Open your feed. Something else has already decided what's waiting. Not to serve you... to keep you in the system. The design is deliberate. Outrage travels faster than nuance. Anxiety keeps you scrolling. The machine is working perfectly. It's just not working for you.

The Pact

To live well, we should make decisions in moments of strength to hold strong in moments of weakness. Ulysses lashed himself to the mast before his ship reached the Sirens. He heard their song. He survived. The secret: decide before temptation arrives. Install Freed now. Never doom-scroll again.

The Solution

Freed browses your feeds in the background and strips out the noise. Posts land in a secure vault on your computer, and are live-synced to your phone. Freed curates a unified feed of everything you love, with you in control. Your algorithm, your rules. The platforms become players in your game.

What We Believe

  • Your attention is pricelessIt's also finite. With Freed, your time, your focus, and your data stay yours. Everything you read lives on your device. We never see any of it. Read what you came for. Get back to your life.
  • You should own the algorithmFreed's ranking is open source. You can tune which sources matter most to you. You can read exactly why a post appears first. You're in control.
  • This belongs to everyoneThe code is public. The roadmap is public. Fork it. Audit it. Share it.
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Go Deeper

The Slow Poison of Endless Fantasy
After Skool

On escapism, variable reward loops, and what the attention economy is slowly doing to your capacity for sustained thought.

What if we had fixed social media? An alternative history
Center for Humane Technology

What if we'd optimized for human flourishing instead of engagement?

War on Sensemaking V
Daniel Schmachtenberger, Rebel Wisdom

How algorithmic feeds degrade our collective ability to reason about reality. The linked timestamp drops you into the key section.

How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds
Tristan Harris, TED

Seventeen minutes. The clearest explanation of how this happened, by someone who was inside Google when it did.

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
John Perry Barlow, 1996

The original. Written the day the U.S. government first tried to regulate the internet. Thirty years later, may we each do our part.