murmr

You are the product.

You don't pay for social media because you are not the customer, you are the product.

Big tech farms you for your data and your attention, selling both to the highest bidder.

Division = Engagement.

Big tech keeps you locked into your screen by whatever means neccessary.

This means algorithmns that fuel hatred and contempt for our fellow humans.

"Social" media?

Instead of connecting us to the humans around us, social media has created an addictive, digital alternative to actual socialising.

It is making us isolated, divided and radicalised.

It keeps getting shitter.

When your social world is owned by a for-profit company, and you're not even the customer, you have no voice to shape it.

As big tech squeezes more ads into the platform and more money out of you, there's nothing you can do.

See what's happening

Murmr removes all the friction involved in meeting up or catching up with friends and family.

Like a digital noticeboard, in one tap you can see all the events, hangouts and catchup calls you have been invited to.

No endless notifications. No new groupchats for every event. Just check the app when you have free time you want to fill.

Create new events

With a few taps, create a new hangout, whether a chill night in, park run, or a big night out.

Easily invite whatever combination of people you'd be happy to come along.

Friends can comment to check details, but the key infomation won't get buried in a groupchat.

New ways to socialise

As well as planning fixed events, Murmr allows you to translate small village drop-in culture to our big, scattered cities.

Share that you'll be home or working at a café all day, and your selected friends can see and drop in if they're passing.

Murmr lets you easily put up hangs that would be too casual to bother messaging loads of people over, helping us bring back a more passive social life.

Connections to people further afield

Connect to friends and family further afield, whether through a proper, old-fashioned catchup call or a gaming session.

It's always a nightmare coordinating times for a call, with two people messaging over potential shared gaps in the diary.

Murmr fixes this problem by reversing the planning. You know when you are free. You know the people you'd like to catch up with. Share the slot and see which friend bags it and calls you, in-app or out.

Non-profit

This means we don't have perverse incentives to make the platform worse to squeeze more money out.

Like Wikipedia, we are a public good that relies on donations. That means we have to stay good *for you*, the users.

Worker and user owned

We are also a worker and user co-op. This means that any user who wants to have a say in the direction of the platform, can.

This will be a democratic platform, with power firmly in the hands of workers and users (and no creepy billionaire bosses).

No data harvesting

Because we rely on donations, we can ensure that user data is utterly private, wiped whenever possible, and never sold — unlike big tech.

The platform is the product; you are the owner.

Actually see your friends, easily

We have no incentive to poision the minds of 15-year olds and addict them to their screens.

Our entire motivational structure is about improving people's lives, so hopefully people like you will want to donate to keep murmr going.