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title: "About Open Media"
description: "Open Media is an open-source project building the open communication layer for humanity."
canonical: https://openmedia.site/about
last-updated: 2026-10-25
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# About Open Media

Build the open communication layer for humanity, where people can communicate across networks, control how information reaches them, and keep ownership of their identity, relationships and content, whichever app they use.

Apps are doorways. The person is the constant. No app should permanently own your identity, audience, social graph, content, recommendations, message history or governance rights. Open Media is one doorway. Anyone should eventually be able to build another on the same open protocol, and you should be able to walk through whichever one you like.

Open Media is an open-source project (MIT licence) developed in the open at [https://github.com/mihirkavi/open-media](https://github.com/mihirkavi/open-media). It ships one app for iPhone, Android and the web, a public API, MCP servers for AI agents, and the database rules that protect people's data.

## What it is today

- **Everything together:** One place for your social world. Posts from several networks in one feed, and every conversation, chat or email, in one inbox organised by person rather than by app. One post goes to every network you choose.
- **Your feed belongs to you:** No secret algorithm. Choose Raw, simply newest first, or Relevant, a small set of signals you can see. Every ranked post explains itself with “Why this?”, including the private data it did not use.
- **You are not locked in:** Your identity, audience and content move with you. Export everything or delete your account at any time. Public posts are open to everyone through a free API. The goal is identity and content that work in any app.

## Honest status

- Open Media is an early public beta, built in the open.
- It cannot read or post to Instagram, X, LinkedIn or TikTok feeds; those companies offer no open access and Open Media does not scrape them.
- Chat bridges are opt-in, run on a local setup today, and are not approved by the networks they connect to.
- Messages between Open Media users are protected by strict database rules but are not yet end-to-end encrypted.

## How it is built

The app is built with Expo and React Native. Data lives in Supabase (Postgres with row-level security), and this API runs on Cloudflare Workers. Every decision is recorded as an architecture decision record in the repository, and every change is tested before it ships.

See also: [contact](https://openmedia.site/contact), [privacy](https://openmedia.site/privacy) and [pricing](https://openmedia.site/pricing).