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.
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.
Before we move in, let us set it up first.
Pick the username you want. On the Fediverse, this becomes your full home address.
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.
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.
The interface, rules, specific features, and add-ons can differ from provider to provider. The shared network keeps people reachable.
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.
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.
TouchGrass is for people, posts, photos, albums, writing, recommendations, messages, and memories that belong to the life you actually live.
No autoplay or shortform videos, no algorithmic feed, no public like counts, and no infinite scroll.
Share some messages publicly, others with friends only, and others only with specific circles of people.
Use your profile as a curated calling card with short posts, longform posts, images, albums, recommendations from people, messages, and memories.
Export, portability, open social web, Fediverse, and compatible protocol directions stay visible with clear feature status instead of hidden exit doors.
TouchGrass is not built for viral video, influencer growth, public popularity contests, addiction loops, platform lock-in, or growth-at-all-costs.