Maya SinghPublic
@maya.exit · 2h
Public field notes from the co-op this morning — harvest share this week has chard, three kinds of squash, and the usual optimism.
Everything a social network should do — posting, messaging, sharing, following, finding your people — built so none of it is surveilled, sold, or held hostage.
Private messengers protect conversations. Public networks let you reach strangers. Exit is the piece that's been missing: a whole social life — feeds, groups, family threads, shared albums, plans — with privacy as the default, not a setting.
Your group chats, family threads, photo albums, invites, and close-friends feed are all end-to-end encrypted. Messaging apps protect conversations. Exit protects a whole social life.
Public posting rides on AT Protocol — the same open network Bluesky helped pioneer — because that's what it's great at: open, portable, findable speech. Exit adds the parts the public feed isn't designed for: private circles, encrypted groups, and federated topic communities, each on the right rails. One app, the right tool for each job.
Your identity, circles, and social graph live in formats you can take with you. If Exit disappears tomorrow, the people you connected with don't. No lock-in. No hostage-taking.
What broke wasn't ranking. It was being watched, monetized, and made to perform in front of strangers — with your family, your friendships, and your words as the raw material.
Every post, every DM, every photo of your kid became fuel — for ads, for models, for whoever bought the data. The app wasn't the product. You were.
A joke to your friends became evidence for a stranger. A political opinion became a liability at work — or at the border. The audience went global by default. The stakes came with it.
Chat encrypted end-to-end. Posts addressed to the people you picked. No ads. No data harvest. No one reading over your shoulder.
Maya writes once and picks who sees it — Public, Friends, Family, or Close. Every post wears its audience on its sleeve: a colored rail on the left, a dot by the name, the label in plain text. Scrolling the feed stays one motion. The boundaries stay visible.
Public posts sit alongside private ones in a single timeline. Each post wears its audience — a colored rail and a label so you can see, at a glance, who's actually going to read it. Public goes out to the open network. Close friends stays encrypted, end to end.
Family at Thanksgiving, work at 9am, neighborhood on a Saturday. Each Space keeps its own feed, members, and encryption keys — no bleed, no accidental cross-posting.
Your identity, your circles, and your social graph live in an open format — signed by you, portable to any client that speaks the same protocols. Export it whenever. Import it elsewhere. The app is replaceable and the network is portable.
@you.exit4124ed25519:7f3a…@you.exit4124verified ✓WhatsApp stays WhatsApp. Signal stays Signal. Exit pulls the threads into one inbox so you can reply from here, keep your boundaries here, and stop juggling eight icons to answer your mom. Each bridge is opt-in, per platform, and you can pull the plug any time.
Privacy. Security. A feed without ads. And the right to take your people with you when you leave. No single protocol does all four — so we use each one for what it's actually best at.
Portable identity, open indexing, account migration between providers. We use it for public posts, follows, and discovery — the parts of your life that should be findable on the open web, and that should belong to you no matter which app you use to read them.
The fediverse is already the best place for topic communities — neighborhood forums, hobby groups, subject-based discussion that anyone can find and apply to join. We use ActivityPub for public and semi-public groups, and for reaching people already on Mastodon, Threads, and the rest.
Messaging Layer Security — modern end-to-end encryption with forward secrecy, efficient at the scale of real groups. We use it for DMs, friend circles, family threads, and shared encrypted spaces. Everything that shouldn't be anywhere but between the people in them.
Federated infrastructure for things that have to cross into other networks: voice and video calls, and bridges to closed platforms like WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram. You never have to see or think about it — it just powers the places Exit has to reach outward.
The short version first. The details are there if you want them.
We use the Messaging Layer Security standard. Keys rotate automatically when people join or leave a circle — so a former member can't read new messages.
Exit connects to the open social protocols — Bluesky's AT Protocol, Mastodon's ActivityPub, and Matrix for chat. Your identity is portable. If Exit ever goes away, your network doesn't.
A flat $2 a year, first year free. No ads, no data sales, no "free tier that's selling you." Creator features (paid circles, marketplace) take a small percentage — see pricing below.
Encrypted metadata needed to deliver messages (who to, when) — nothing we can read. Public posts are cached on the open network. Your contacts and circles live on your device.
You are the customer, not the product. The price is what keeps the incentives honest — small enough that almost anyone can pay it, large enough that we never have to squeeze you for anything else.
We're onboarding a few thousand folks at a time. Drop your email — we'll send an invite when there's room and never mail you otherwise.