Welcome to your new home on the open social web.

TouchGrass is a safe, friends-first social network with no algorithmic feed, no videos, no public like counts, and no infinite scroll. Share posts, photos, albums, and longer stories with friends or private circles.

@you@touchgrass.network On TouchGrass, you'll just be known as you. On the Fediverse, this will be your home address.

Before we move in, let us set it up first.

Claim your address

Pick the username you want. On the Fediverse, this becomes your full home address.

Fediverse address @you@touchgrass.network

What is the open social web?

The open social web is made up of platforms and protocols that are not closed off from other sources, but designed to connect with them.

The two largest and best-known protocols are ActivityPub and ATProto. Because those names are not especially catchy, their environments have friendlier names: the Fediverse and the Atmosphere.

They are two collections of platforms, apps, and social networks that share data within their own environment. That means you are no longer tied to one platform and can move when you want.

What is the Fediverse?

The Fediverse is part of the open social web. It works like email for social media: everyone chooses the provider that suits them and can still communicate with people using another provider.

Feeling adventurous? You can even become your own provider. That lets you fully customize your fediverse address too.

Choose your provider

You pick the place that fits you. Other people can pick a different place and you can still follow, read, and reply to each other.

Different doors, same street

The interface, rules, specific features, and add-ons can differ from provider to provider. The shared network keeps people reachable.

Move when you need to

If a provider no longer suits you, you can move and take your archive and address book with you. That way, you do not have to start from zero again.

What is the Atmosphere?

TouchGrass is also compatible with parts of the Atmosphere: Bluesky, Eurosky, Flashes, and other ATProto apps.

ATProto is the open protocol behind that network. Accounts live in portable data repositories, so apps can build different experiences on top of the same identity and friend graph. On TouchGrass, that means you can connect an Atmosphere account, but your feed remains fully based on your Friends.

What TouchGrass is trying to be

A safe, open social home for real life

TouchGrass is for people, posts, photos, albums, writing, recommendations, messages, and memories that belong to the life you actually live.

No dark patterns

No autoplay or shortform videos, no algorithmic feed, no public like counts, and no infinite scroll.

Privacy with shape

Share some messages publicly, others with friends only, and others only with specific circles of people.

Useful beyond the feed

Use your profile as a curated calling card with short posts, longform posts, images, albums, recommendations from people, messages, and memories.

Open doors, not lock-in

Export, portability, open social web, Fediverse, and compatible protocol directions stay visible with clear feature status instead of hidden exit doors.

Not for every social media job

TouchGrass is not built for viral video, influencer growth, public popularity contests, addiction loops, platform lock-in, or growth-at-all-costs.