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Most social apps are free because you're the product. Joinue works the other way. Here's exactly what it does with your data, and what it never will.
Your phone quietly saves the exact spot each photo was taken. Joinue strips that out before a photo is ever stored, so your home or the party's address never lands on a server, and can't be handed to anyone later. It's always on, nothing to toggle.
Privacy that only lives in app code is one bug away from a leak. So on Joinue, who can see your profile is decided in the database itself, and even a request that bypasses the app returns only what you've actually shared. People see your details because you're connected, or share a space, event, or trip, not because they guessed a link.
Export what you've made on Joinue whenever you want, and delete your account yourself from Settings. No dark patterns, no emailing anyone to beg. The export is one file with everything you've made, and it flags anything it couldn't include. When you go, your private data goes with you. The shared things you leave behind (a message in a group, an event you hosted) just show as from a deleted user, so other people's memories don't break.
Joinue is independent and bootstrapped. No investors, no exit to chase, and no plans to sell your personal data, ever. Right now it barely makes money, and what keeps it running is support from the people who use it.
For something like this to last, it has to pay for itself eventually. Joinue isn't burning investor money to look free. So one day it may need to earn a little, and there are already a few ideas, none of them involving selling you: ticketing, tools for organizers and venues, maybe aggregate demand insight, where a venue could see that interest in live comedy is up in their city, drawn from patterns across many people and tied to none of them.
None of that is a done deal, just possibilities for if and when they're needed. Whatever form the aggregate ideas take, we won't sell them to political campaigns or organizations, and we won't turn them into a way to identify, track, or target anyone.
And if you hate any of it, tell us.
A lot of free social apps quietly run on you. Joinue is built the other way around.
Free to you, funded by packaging your social graph for advertisers or an eventual sale
Bootstrapped and independently owned, kept going by the people who use it, with ideas for earning from tickets and organizer tools someday, never from selling you
Hidden GPS left inside uploaded photos, exposed until someone reports it
Location metadata stripped from every photo before it is stored
Public by default to grow the network, your profile exposed to strangers
Profile access enforced in the database, visible to the people you actually share context with
Data kept indefinitely, deletion buried or handled by request
Export and delete yourself anytime, private data removed with you
None of this is a setting you have to go find. It's just how Joinue is built.
