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Major privacy legislation passes in EU — apps must declare data usage within 72 hours
The Digital Privacy Rights Act passed with 94% approval. Tech companies have 18 months to comply with the new disclosure requirements…
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I shot this entire short film on a single lens
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Trailhead First light on the ridge — forty minutes before anyone else got up there. ✨
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Heat complete improbable Finals sweep — Butler named MVP for the second time
Miami's defense suffocated Boston's offense for four straight games. Butler averaged 31.4 PPG on 54% shooting…
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The one setting I change on every shoot
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Golden Hour Tutorial — Get Cinematic Shots Every Time
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The Sony WH-XM6 is 2026's best overall — top-tier ANC, 40-hour battery, and improved call quality. For travel, the Bose QC Ultra II edges it out on comfort.
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We tested 40+ pairs. Sony, Bose, and Apple dominate, but Sennheiser's Momentum 5 is a surprise challenger.
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After 200+ hours of listening, the Sony WH-XM6 wins for most people. Bose QC Ultra II takes the crown for calls.
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Top 10 Noise-Cancelling Headphones of 2026

We spent four months with every flagship pair on the market, in offices, on planes, and on a very loud commuter train. The gap between the top three has narrowed to the point where the deciding factor is rarely the noise cancelling itself.

Sony still edges out the field on raw isolation, but Bose has closed most of that distance while keeping the more comfortable clamp. Apple's advantage remains the handoff between devices, which no one else has matched.

If you take calls all day, skip to the section on microphone arrays — it is the one area where the spec sheets are actively misleading.

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The hub for your personal cloud.

Your day is currently split across four windows. A browser to search. Messaging software to reach the people you work with. A separate app to talk to an AI. Something else again to read what you follow. Four logins, four companies, four separate records of what you did today.

SocialWeb Desktop is all of it in one window — an operating system for your personal cloud, running on a server you control instead of someone else's.

01A browser for searching the web
02Messaging software for reaching your team
03A separate app for chatting with an AI
04A reader for the feeds you follow

One window. One login. One server, and it's yours.

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Muted words live in the Feed sidebar. Anything you add there is filtered out of every Stack, and each Stack can mute its own words on top of that.

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A Personal Cloud Computer is a machine that runs somewhere always-on and belongs to you, rather than space rented inside a platform. The technical term is self-hosting. Plans start around 99¢ a month for a small machine and rise to about $59 for one sized for a large community — the difference is storage, memory and how many people it serves at once.

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A growing group of ordinary users is moving their photos and messages off platforms they do not control.

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the $12 tier or the annual toggle?9:15
the annual one — the screenshot still shows the old copy9:16
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Cloud models, or models running on your own server. Nothing leaves the machine unless you pick a cloud one.

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Three changes: the annual toggle moved above the fold, the $12 tier picked up unlimited search, and the comparison table lost two rows. All three landed Tuesday.
Which of those needs a screenshot update?
Only the comparison table. I can draft the note to Priya if you want.
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Inbox triage

Run now

Reads new messages and flags anything that needs a reply today.

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Drafting a reply to Meridian

Thanks for the redline — I have flagged the indemnity clause for our counsel and will come back to you with a marked-up version before Friday.

Everything in one window

Search the web, message the people you work with, ask an AI, and read what you follow — without opening a second app or handing four companies a record of it.

Keyboard first

⌘K opens anything — a stack, a chat, a search, an AI thread. J and K move through posts. Nothing needs the mouse.

Runs on your cloud, not theirs

Desktop connects to the same server your phone already uses — yours or ours. Messages decrypt locally; nothing new is stored anywhere else.

Three promises, in plain terms.

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Everything in one place

Most people use separate apps to message friends, read updates, search the web, and follow the people or topics they care about. SocialWeb brings all of that into one simple place. One app, one login, and one cleaner way to stay connected online without bouncing between platforms that track your behavior, push ads, and decide what you should see.

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A price that makes sense

SocialWeb is built around a simple idea: people should not have to choose between overpaying for privacy or giving up their data for a “free” app. We keep the price low so more people can use a better version of the internet without feeling locked into another expensive subscription.

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Built for people, not profit

SocialWeb is not built around ads, engagement traps, or algorithms designed to keep you scrolling. You choose what you follow, what you read, and how you connect. That promise is backed by low pricing, open standards, no ad-based business model, and the option to host your own server. SocialWeb gives people a more honest way to use the internet, where the user comes first.

Three things, done well.

Read, message, and browse. Each one private by design.

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Read

Direct subscriptions, chronological order, no ranking. You choose the sources, topics, and conversations you want to see, not an algorithm. Group feeds into stacks like sports, tech, or finance, or read everything in one place. Mute any word, topic, person, or phrase, and it disappears from your feed and stacks until you choose to turn it back on.

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Message

An RSS-based group chat, encrypted in transit and at rest, where your data lives on a server you choose, yours or ours. One person creates the chat, and everyone else joins by subscribing to it. No data selling, no hidden tracking, and no platform owning your private conversations. Private by protocol, not just by policy.

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Browse

Web search routed through SocialWeb's servers so search providers never see you. Same results, none of the tracking. Available on every tier.

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All of it runs on RSS.

RSS is the open publishing format the web already runs on. No company owns it and no platform controls it — which is exactly why SocialWeb is built on it. Every feed you subscribe to, every stack you group them into, and every group chat you join is an RSS feed underneath.

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Feeds are subscriptions

You subscribe directly to a source's feed and its posts arrive in the order they were published. There is no ranking layer because there is nothing sitting between you and the publisher.

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Chat is a feed too

A group chat is an RSS feed with write access. One person creates it, everyone else joins by subscribing, and the feed lives on a server you choose — encrypted in transit and at rest.

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Nothing is locked in

Open format, open protocol. Take your subscriptions with you, host the feed yourself, or read it in any other RSS client. Your subscriptions are not a platform asset.

Privacy is built into the structure.

SocialWeb is built on open, decentralized infrastructure that reduces tracking at the system level. Your feeds are fetched for you, and your searches are routed through SocialWeb instead of exposing your device to search providers. Your conversations are encrypted in transit and at rest and live on a server you choose. Less tracking, more control, and privacy that comes from how the product works — not just what the policy says.

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  • Web search
  • Chat rooms
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  • Fetches on your behalf
  • Routes your searches
  • Stores encrypted at rest
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  • Decrypts locally
  • Chronological only
  • No profile built
Your IP is never exposed to publishers or search providers

About 1/15th the price of comparable services.

Privacy tools shouldn't be a luxury.

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For people who want everything in one place without tracking, algorithms, or data collection.

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Privacy-conscious professionals

You share sensitive work online. You'd rather not fund a data broker doing it.

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Attention-sensitive readers

You set the feed length. When you're done, you're done. No infinite scroll waiting to pull you back.

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Data sovereignty advocates

Self-host it. Your server, your data, your terms.

A better way to use the internet.

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