Garden
Garden is a social network where you see posts from people you follow, in chronological order.
No algorithm. No ads.
A different business model
Free platforms are funded by advertisers, which means their real job is capturing your attention and selling it. The incentive to keep you scrolling is baked into the model.
Garden is funded by subscriptions. At $4/month, we work for you.
There are no advertisers to optimize for, no engagement metrics to chase. We don't need your data and have no reason to hold your attention. Our job is simply to show you what the people you follow have posted.
What your subscription pays for
The platform itself.
Servers, development, and a small team. No investors to satisfy, no ad revenue targets to hit.
Aligned incentives.
It means our incentives match yours. We earn your subscription by being useful, not by maximizing engagement.
Paid access also makes for a cleaner network. Spam and bot campaigns depend on scale, and a per-account cost makes that unworkable.
What Garden includes
Chronological feed
Posts from people you follow, in the order they were posted
No algorithm
You see what you asked to see, not what maximizes engagement
No ads
We don't sell your attention to advertisers
No data harvesting
We don't track you for advertisers
Bot-resistant
Paid accounts deter spam at scale
Shareable posts
Every post has a public link, ready to share with friends or embed on the web
The underlying logic
Most social platforms treat user attention as the inventory they sell. Garden treats it as something worth protecting.
When our incentive is to serve you, not sell you, everything else falls into place.
$4/month
Social media with the right incentives