How does privacy work on TouchGrass?
Privacy on TouchGrass is not a single promise. It is a set of product choices: audience controls, friends, circles, profile settings, posting surfaces, and plain caveats about what software can and cannot guarantee. The goal is safer social software with honest boundaries. Open-web direction and privacy can coexist, but they must be explained separately. Open does not mean everything is public.
Why we chose this
“Privacy” is easy to put in a headline and hard to make real in a product. A social network can promise privacy while still pushing people into public performance, confusing defaults, engagement traps, or settings nobody understands.
TouchGrass treats privacy as a product surface. That means privacy belongs in the places where people make decisions: when they post, when they choose an audience, when they manage friends, when they use circles, and when they decide what belongs on a profile.
This approach also means being honest about limits. A product can reduce accidental exposure. It can make audience choices clearer. It can avoid public scoreboards and addictive feed pressure. But it cannot stop every screenshot, every copied quote, every bad-faith recipient, or every technical edge case in an open-web environment.
TouchGrass is not anti-social media. It is pro-social software. That includes safety, choice, and exit doors without pretending that one privacy label solves everything.
How this works on TouchGrass
TouchGrass centers intentional sharing. Public, friends, and circles give posts different audiences. Profiles act more like places worth keeping than disposable feed slots. Posts, long-form writing, photos, albums, and recommendations can be shared with more context.
TouchGrass also avoids several mechanics that make privacy harder in practice. There is no algorithmic feed designed to reward oversharing. There is no infinite scroll pushing people into more posting and more consuming. There are no public like counts turning every post into a scoreboard. There is no native video treadmill pulling the product toward maximum watch time.
Privacy also means explaining what happens when a post is not public. Friends and circle posts should be understood as audience-limited, not impossible to leak. That distinction matters. Clear software should reduce confusion without promising the impossible.
Worth knowing
Open-web direction can mean portability, interoperability, public profiles, or exit paths. Privacy is about audience, control, safety boundaries, and expectations. They overlap, but they are not identical.
FAQ
What does privacy as a product surface mean?
It means privacy appears in the product where people make choices, not only in marketing. Audience selection, friends, circles, profiles, and caveats all matter.
Can TouchGrass be open and still support privacy?
Yes, if the words are kept separate. Open can mean portable and interoperable. Private or audience-limited sharing is about who should see a post and what limits apply.
Why mention the limits so clearly?
Because safer social software should not rely on overpromising. Trust grows when people understand both the controls and the boundaries.
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Why we chose this
“Privacy” is easy to put in a headline and hard to make real in a product. A social network can promise privacy while still pushing people into public performance, confusing defaults, engagement traps, or settings nobody understands.
TouchGrass treats privacy as a product surface. That means privacy belongs in the places where people make decisions: when they post, when they choose an audience, when they manage friends, when they use circles, and when they decide what belongs on a profile.
This approach also means being honest about limits. A product can reduce accidental exposure. It can make audience choices clearer. It can avoid public scoreboards and addictive feed pressure. But it cannot stop every screenshot, every copied quote, every bad-faith recipient, or every technical edge case in an open-web environment.
TouchGrass is not anti-social media. It is pro-social software. That includes safety, choice, and exit doors without pretending that one privacy label solves everything.
How this works on TouchGrass
TouchGrass centers intentional sharing. Public, friends, and circles give posts different audiences. Profiles act more like places worth keeping than disposable feed slots. Posts, long-form writing, photos, albums, and recommendations can be shared with more context.
TouchGrass also avoids several mechanics that make privacy harder in practice. There is no algorithmic feed designed to reward oversharing. There is no infinite scroll pushing people into more posting and more consuming. There are no public like counts turning every post into a scoreboard. There is no native video treadmill pulling the product toward maximum watch time.
Privacy also means explaining what happens when a post is not public. Friends and circle posts should be understood as audience-limited, not impossible to leak. That distinction matters. Clear software should reduce confusion without promising the impossible.
Worth knowing
Open-web direction can mean portability, interoperability, public profiles, or exit paths. Privacy is about audience, control, safety boundaries, and expectations. They overlap, but they are not identical.
FAQ
What does privacy as a product surface mean?
It means privacy appears in the product where people make choices, not only in marketing. Audience selection, friends, circles, profiles, and caveats all matter.
Can TouchGrass be open and still support privacy?
Yes, if the words are kept separate. Open can mean portable and interoperable. Private or audience-limited sharing is about who should see a post and what limits apply.
Why mention the limits so clearly?
Because safer social software should not rely on overpromising. Trust grows when people understand both the controls and the boundaries.
Keep reading
Read more about privacy and audience control
See what you can do