Free social media
was never free.

You are not the product

Every free network you've ever joined had a customer, and it was never you. It was the advertiser, the data broker, the political consultancy renting your attention by the thousand impressions. You were inventory. Priced, sorted, sold, and told it was community.

Bonfire has no ad product and never will. Not a sponsored post, not a promoted account, not a partner integration that quietly pipes your behavior somewhere else. There is no second customer standing behind you. There's just you, and the small amount you pay, and that's the entire arrangement.

Your content is yours — and we can prove it

Ownership isn't a promise buried in a terms-of-service document you'll never read. It's an address. Every photo, blurb and story you post is pinned to IPFS, where the content hash is the address: change one pixel and it's a different file with a different name. Nothing gets edited out from under you.

Then we stamp that hash onto the TEXITcoin blockchain, under your wallet, with a timestamp nobody can forge. That's your receipt. It says this content, this author, this moment. It holds up if we're generous, if we're hostile, and if we're gone entirely.

No algorithm decides what you see

The feed is reverse-chronological. That's it. Newest first, from the people you chose to follow. No ranking model, no suggested-for-you, no invisible hand deciding your sister's baby photos lose to a rage-bait clip because the clip keeps you scrolling eleven seconds longer.

An engagement algorithm isn't a feature, it's a lever, and every lever eventually gets pulled toward revenue. We didn't build one. There's nothing here to pull.

Pay to play, because free is what trolls can afford

Spam, brigading, sockpuppet swarms and bot farms all rely on a single economic fact: posting costs nothing. Ten thousand accounts times zero is zero. Every free platform then spends a fortune on moderation trying to undo the incentive it created.

So we charged for it. A few cents in TXC to post. A few cents to comment. A rounding error for someone with something to say, and a business-ending expense for someone running a harassment campaign at scale. It isn't censorship — nobody's opinion gets filtered. It just has to be worth a penny to you.

No accounts to harvest

There's no email, no phone number, no real-name policy, no contacts upload, no shadow profile of people who never signed up. You sign in by proving you hold a key. We can't sell a dossier we never collected, and we can't leak one either.

You can leave, and take it all

The strongest thing a platform can offer is a door. Your content sits on IPFS, addressed by hash, pinnable by anyone including you. Your identity is a wallet you control. Your history is on a public chain.

If we raise prices, get boring, or turn into exactly the thing this page complains about — go. Take every byte with you. A network that has to earn your stay behaves better than one that traps you, and we'd rather be kept honest than be your landlord.