These five laws are not a privacy policy — they are constraints compiled into the system. Where a promise can be broken, we removed the ability to break it.
Free forever. No ads, no data sales, no paywalls, no premium tiers, no investors to answer to. Sustained by its community or not at all — because the moment a platform must extract value from its users, it begins to work against them.
The server cannot leak what it never holds. No emails, no phone numbers, no passwords, no identity files. Encryption happens in your browser; the operator is mathematically blind to the contents of private communication.
No photos, no video, no infinite media. This keeps hosting costs near zero, defeats appearance-first judgment, and restores the cadence of the early web — words, exchanged between minds.
No algorithmic feed, no engagement metrics, no dark patterns engineered to keep you scrolling. The application's success is measured in conversations begun, not hours consumed. It is designed to let you log on, connect, and leave.
Moderation flows from cryptographic consensus among users, not top-down surveillance of their messages. Bad actors are excised by the network without any authority reading the traffic of the innocent.
A law is easy to write and hard to keep. Where a product cannot fully honour one of these, it says so in its own words rather than quietly softening the law it breaks. RebellionSocial — currently in development — publishes its account here: what we can protect, and what we can't.
rebellionchat.com — free forever.