MANI-
FESTO.
Why we made this. What we believe. What we will never do.
The timeline
used to be
humans.
Then a robot started appearing under every post. We built this to put the humans back. That’s the entire pitch.
A short history of noise.
- i.
For most of its life, X was a place where people replied to people. The replies were short. Sometimes funny. Sometimes wrong. They were the point.
- ii.
Then an account named @grok started replying under almost every popular post. Then @askperplexity. Then a flood of other bot-identified accounts. A parade of synthetic interest: language models trained on what we had already said, fed back to us at scale.
- iii.
Threads got shorter. Replies got longer. Conversation became correction. People started talking to the bot instead of each other.
- iv.
The platform built more buttons. Explain this post. Translate with Grok. Sidebars. Suggested chats. Each addition small. The cumulative effect: a feed half-occupied by a robot.
We are not against machines.
We are against
being spoken over by them.
Five short
statements.
The timeline is a public space.
What it shows you matters.
Tools that decide what it shows should be small, opt-in, and yours to turn off.
Not bundled. Not pre-checked. Not “smart.”
A reply box is a place for people.
A bot answering a question you didn’t ask is not a reply.
Free software with a clear job is better than paid software with twelve.
This one has one job.
We can use AI tools and still want to choose when.
Choice is the whole product.
Lines we won’t cross.
- ×add an AI feature to a tool whose purpose is to remove AI features.
- ×track you. ever. there is no analytics in this code.
- ×sell your data. we don’t collect any to sell.
- ×bundle other extensions, sponsors, or “partner offers.”
- ×add a paid tier with “premium” toggles. the toggles are the product.
- ×charge for this. not now. not later.
What we’ll keep doing.
- ✓stay free. forever.
- ✓add a switch every time a new AI account starts spamming the timeline.
- ✓ship updates that remove things, not add them.
- ✓listen when you tell us we missed one.
- ✓publish what changes, when, and why.
- ✓work in chrome and firefox. always both.
Install
if you agree.
Each install supports the cause. Each install builds a more human timeline. Free. No account required.
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