About FediHood
FediHood is free software for talking with the people around you, by topic. Private by design, free of ads and trackers, and connected to the fediverse.
Talk with the people around you
FediHood is a social network built around the place where you live. You choose a city and the topics you care about, then read what neighbours are saying and join in.
No engagement algorithm picks what you see. Feeds are chronological and built from your radius and your topics, nothing else.
What FediHood gives you
Most feeds only show the people you already follow. FediHood adds a second way in: reading by place, next to the feeds you know.
Feeds by distance
Pick a radius, from a few kilometers to a whole region. The Nearby feed gathers the people inside it, Discover covers the whole instance instead, and both take your topic and language filters.
A map of the conversation
People and posts are grouped by city, region and country on one map. Tap a place to read its timeline or to see who lives there.
Topics that carry your post
Tag a post with a topic and readers filtering for that topic will find it, even without following you. You can mute the topics you do not care about.
Private by design
Privacy here is not a settings page you have to audit. It is how the server is built.
A pseudonym, nothing else
A handle, a password, a recovery email and your city. No phone number, no real name, no profile to mine.
Location kept at city level
No GPS and no address. Your location is a city name from an OpenStreetMap search, stored on a coarse grid. For a very small place, the app suggests the larger town nearby, which makes its residents harder to single out. You can keep the small place if you prefer.
Messages the server cannot read
Direct messages are encrypted end to end with the Signal protocol, across instances too. The server carries encrypted data only, and key backups are protected by a passphrase it never sees.
No ads, no trackers
No analytics, no advertising networks, no third-party trackers, no tracking cookies. Your session token and encryption keys stay in your browser and are wiped when you log out.
Your IP never reaches other servers
Remote avatars and images are fetched by this server through a signed proxy. Your browser never connects to another instance, so no other server can log your address.
Posts that clean up after themselves
Set an expiry between three days and a month and your posts delete themselves when their time is up.
Why sign up here
The city features live here
An app can only offer what its server stores. Nearby feeds, the map, city level privacy and end to end encrypted messages need an account on this server.
Mastodon is optional
Already on Mastodon? Link your account and use it to sign in. The link only checks your identity, with the smallest permission Mastodon allows, and the token is revoked right after. If not, ignore it entirely. The API stays Mastodon compatible, so the usual mobile clients connect as they are.
New to the fediverse?
The fediverse is a network of independent servers that exchange posts through a shared protocol, ActivityPub. You sign up on one server and can still follow and talk to people hosted on any other.
You are not locked in. You can move your account to another server and bring your followers along, or delete it at any time.
On another server? Set your city on FediHood through the locator bot.