Social media has messed with you long enough.
Time for HIY.
No algorithm engineered to make you angry. No Silicon Valley server reading along. Just your phone, your friends — and a chip that protects your identity better than any password ever could.
Available for Android and iOS · Swiss infrastructure · Free forever in its base version
Get the app
30 seconds, no account with any corporation required — just ortino.AUTH.
Generate your identity in the chip
Your phone builds you a hardware key. No password to remember, no server storing it.
Post, chat, done
No onboarding marathon. You're in faster than accepting cookies on other apps.
Wherever you're coming from — here's why you'll stay.
From Facebook: No algorithm ranking outrage over truth — just a hop budget anyone can understand.
From WhatsApp: Two people in the same room? Stays in the room — not on Meta's servers in California.
From Signal: Just as end-to-end encrypted, only not just chat — posting publicly works too.
From X: Bot farms are pointless when every post is hardware-signed.
And yes — group chats too, a Friends mode, and purely local posts that never leave your Wi-Fi.
This far your post travels — and not a meter further
Click through the hops. (★ = real friends, who make the journey cheaper.)
Same Wi-Fi, device to device
Ready? No like, no boost, no Zuckerberg — just physics. Start the simulation.
Over the relay — for everything else
Practically all delivery runs through here. Reach sets how many devices your post reaches in the "Everyone" feed — not how many forward it, but how many pick it up.
Small: the narrowest tier. Large reaches about 7× as many strangers.
Applies only to "Everyone." "Friends," "Local," and "Only me" are addressed, not broadcast — they go to everyone intended, unlimited.
Cryptography, not marketing speak
Every claim here can be checked against the code. No "just trust us." Code Showcase →
One comment. Short & meant.
No more 400-line rants and comment sections where nobody remembers what it was even about. HIY gives you one comment per post — 2 to 60 characters, three with HIY+. If you've got something to say, make it land.
Your key lives in a vault, not in RAM
Android StrongBox or Apple Secure Enclave — your signing key never leaves the hardware chip. Not even a rooted phone can get to it.
Same Wi-Fi stays on the Wi-Fi
Choose "Local" as your audience, and your post never touches the internet. Photos get automatically recompressed before sharing — GPS and camera EXIF data are completely gone afterward.
AI protection that never leaves your phone
Detection of fake content, spam, and nudity runs 100 % locally — via Apple's SensitiveContentAnalysis on iOS, with a bundled on-device model on Android. No cloud watching along.
Report instead of silently deleting
A trust-weighted report threshold instead of the whims of an admin you'll never meet. Instead of silently vanishing, hidden content gets a witty quip — transparency instead of silent censorship. Strikes double: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 days banned. Repeat offenders notice.
Steal someone's session, and it's already dead the moment they try
Turn on single-device mode, and every new sign-in automatically kills the old session — instantly. No more "was someone in my account?", because it's impossible for two sessions to be active at once.
Dropped your phone in a lake? It comes back in three separate pieces.
Identity (account, code, friendships) — via ortino.AUTH, with email confirmation on every device change.
Friends list — encrypted at the relay, unlockable only with your PIN, hardened with 600,000 rounds of PBKDF2. What we see: nothing.
History (posts, chats) — a local export you keep yourself.
Three separate paths. None of them give us any insight.
Security in three layers
Image, word, transmission — three filters doing their job. No censorship HQ reading along.
A once-over for your photo before it goes live
Your device checks photos locally for nudity and violence before they're shared — using Apple's SensitiveContentAnalysis on iOS, and a bundled on-device model on Android. None of it leaves your phone. Not even to us.
Typos are fine. Slurs get flagged
HIY checks your text before posting for slurs and threats — in all 5 languages. No silent blocking: you get a warning and decide yourself whether to revise it or send it anyway.
And after that? Reading along is impossible
Friends-only posts and direct messages are end-to-end encrypted (X25519 + AES-256-GCM) — nobody but the recipients reads it. Honestly, not even us.
All this so you can feel safe and comfortable in this decentralized world. We can't promise anything, though — there's no Zuckerberg reading along here.
See for yourself.
30 seconds that get straight to the point.
That was the short version.
Every cryptography claim here is also documented in full, with details on keys, protocols, and infrastructure.
Read the technical documentation →Chat on WhatsApp's level. Minus the corporation behind it.
Alongside the open feed, there's 1:1 chat with your friends — encrypted with the same cryptographic building blocks Signal and WhatsApp use: X25519 key exchange and AES-256-GCM. The difference? The key belongs to you — not Mark, not Elon, not anyone else.
- End-to-end encrypted. Full stop.
- Instant delivery via push — even with the app closed
- Read receipts like any modern messenger
- Identical on Android and iOS
Your feed. Your rules. Not Meta's.
Instead of an algorithm optimizing you, you decide yourself with four local filters.
Everything is calculated purely locally on your device. Nothing is counted, nothing is stored, nobody sees which lens you prefer — not even us.
More room for those who want more.
The base version stays free and ad-free forever — no core feature sits behind a paywall. HIY+ is an optional upgrade, not a bouncer.
3 comments instead of 1
For everyone who sometimes needs more than one thought.
Large reach
The "Large" resonance-reach preset is reserved for HIY+ — prevents reach-farming without limiting basic use.
We sleep. The firewall doesn't.
The operation is watched around the clock too — not just when we're building features.
Continuously reads every access log, recognizes attack patterns, and blocks the IP immediately via the firewall. Rule-based, no AI, no delay.
Scans every running Docker image every night for new CVEs — before they become a problem.
Counts failed logins and raises the alarm on unusual patterns.
A self-hosted AI model summarizes the security status every night — locally, not in some cloud.
TL;DR — the short version
For everyone who doesn't have time for details. (Details are coming right up.)
| Criterion | ortino.HIY | Instagram / Threads | X / Twitter | Telegram | TikTok | Mastodon | Nostr |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ads & Tracking | 0% Ads, 0% Tracking | Full ad profiling | Ad targeting | Ads in channels | Extreme tracking | No ads | No ads |
| Key Security | Hardware chip (StrongBox/Enclave) | Corporate password | Corporate password | Cloud account | Corporate account | Server account | Plaintext software key |
| Direct Messages | E2EE (X25519 + AES) | Readable by Meta | Paywall only | Standard chats unencrypted | No real DMs to speak of | Instance admin can read along | Flawed standard (NIP-04) |
| Offline & LAN Mode | Yes, fully self-sufficient | No, server required | No, server required | No, server required | No, server required | No, server required | No, relay required |
The extended roast
Click a platform. We've got nothing to hide.
❌ Instagram / Threads
Your feed is an ad machine that knows exactly where it hurts. Reels are optimized for addiction, not for you. And if Meta bans your account, your entire social life vanishes with one email.
✨ HIY Antidote
Zero algorithm, real E2EE chats that literally nobody but you can read, and a hardware key that belongs to you — not Meta. Nobody can just switch you off.
❌ X (Twitter)
Crypto bots, a blue checkmark for cash, and an algorithm that ranks rage above truth, because rage keeps you scrolling longer.
✨ HIY Antidote
Hardware-signed posts make bot farms technically pointless. The hop budget stops spam mathematically, before it ever reaches your feed.
❌ Telegram
"Secure messenger" — except standard chats aren't end-to-end encrypted at all, only the hidden "Secret Chats" that almost nobody turns on. Your contact list lives in the cloud, not with you.
✨ HIY Antidote
For us, E2EE isn't a submenu you have to go find — it's the only mode for "Friends only" posts and direct messages. Always on.
❌ TikTok
An algorithm so good at guessing what hooks you that hours vanish before you notice. Your attention is the product — not you.
✨ HIY Antidote
There's no recommendation algorithm to manipulate. Just friends, local filters, and a reach budget anyone can understand.
❌ Mastodon (Fediverse)
You're at the mercy of your instance admin's mood. If they pull the plug or your domain gets blocked, you're left without an identity — and your DMs were never really private.
✨ HIY Antidote
No instance you have to trust. Your device, your hardware key, your mesh. Nobody's holding the plug.
❌ Nostr
Your private key often sits in plaintext in a browser extension — one click away from a data theft. And the old encryption standard (NIP-04) has known weaknesses.
✨ HIY Antidote
No software key to steal — StrongBox or Secure Enclave, a real hardware boundary. Plus a hop budget that physically throttles spam instead of hoping for good intentions.
We're not building a company that wants you addicted.
We're building a network we'd actually want to use ourselves again. No ad salespeople breathing down our necks, no investors putting "engagement" above well-being. Just a chip in your pocket that knows you're real — and a mesh that never sells you to a corporation.
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HIY is now on Android and iOS.
Get the app straight from the Play Store or App Store.
