"The Internet should benefit you, not benefit from you."
Aava Superapp is a responsible social media platform that aims to give the user a healthier alternative without the typical problems social media, such as purposely addictive web design and user monitoring. If this sounds foreign to you, remind yourself of how you have to click "accept cookies" or "reject cookies" every time you visit a website. On Aava, you will never have to do that again, because we don't sell any of your information.
Social media has been proven to be incredibly addictive and detrimental to your mental health. People are more alone, mentally ill, and stressed out than ever before. This is because almost all websites exist only to make their owners rich at your expense. They monitor how you use their sites and use this data to see how they could manipulate you to use it more. Your increased screen time is a result of this psychological abuse done by capitalist companies. Aava is non-profit and open source, because it exists for its users.
So if the Internet was a mistake and we should stop using it, why does Aava exist? We can't put the genie back in the bottle and uninvent the Internet. What we can do, however, is steer the Internet in a direction that benefits humanity instead of hindering it. Aava aims to offer you all the basic services you'd normally use but without the toxic components. This is a groundbreaking attempt to create a sustainable and responsible competitor for Big Tech social media, which is not sustainable or responsible at all. Aava attempts to create not just healthier human life but also leave a smaller carbon footprint than its competitors.
1. Aava is non-profit: no ads or behavioral data collection!
2. We need to fix Internet addiction
3. Social responsibility - You should have rights on the Internet
4. How is Aava different from other projects?
5. Aava is ecological and practical
6. AI is forbidden on Aava
7. Contact information
8. We're Open Source and would like you to join the development team!
1. Aava is non-profit: no ads or behavioral data collection!
"Big Tech", a handful of large companies, owns most of the world wide web. Big Tech makes trillions by giving people services such as social media sites and then harvesting the behavioral data that is generated as a result of their use. Your search engine searches, the videos you watch, the links you click.. everything is logged and processed, and they build a profile of your personality so they can even predict your future behavior. Many people ignore this privacy breach, because it's easier to look the other way.It's almost impossible to avoid becoming a victim to this corporate spying these days, which is why we at Aava want to make sure you have at least one safe haven where you can be at ease. Aava doesn't make any money from your use of it. Aava is an open source project and the idea is to develop it together as a community.
2. We need to fix Internet addiction
Websites today are purposely designed to target your reward system and get you hooked, keeping you online for several hours per day. Your life, your time on this Earth, is the most valuable thing you can have, and social media is stealing it. By now, this phenomenon has become harmful to us on a collective level. Studies are already showing that young people have alarmingly short attention spans and they're performing poorly in school. The Internet has turned the builders of our future into drooling smartphone zombies.People today require an increasing amount of "me time". This "me time" is usually mindless entertainment in the form of videos, meme pictures, and gossip. The problem is that this entertainment that's consumed to alleviate stress only increases it. Technology seemingly makes life easier by making certain tasks faster to perform, but we're not seeing an increase in human happiness. You might have a dozen communication apps that you're logged in to, and you're subconsciously always on high alert, waiting for one of these apps to beep and notify you of a new message. This creates stress that you might not even be aware of. Ever find yourself just scrolling on a page or clicking through dozens of browser tabs mindlessly, without actually focusing on anything? Imagine if you could use that brainfog time on something useful. This collectively deteriorative nature of the www is one of the reasons why the current world wide web is not socially or culturally sustainable.
3. Social responsibility - You should have rights on the Internet
On Aava, you have more rights than just the right to free content without being tracked or profiled. You also have the right to have all discussion and information about you removed from the entire Aava Network if you so choose. In short, you have the right to be forgotten.Many facets of the Internet came to people as a complete surprise. The "eternal" nature of the Internet is one of them: when something goes online, it's often there forever. Humans didn't evolve to deal with eternal consequences that are just a button click away. If you find posts about you on Aava, or content made by you, we will delete it on request.
Slanderous discussion and cancel culture have become a big issue on the Internet and these are the unfortunate side effects of social media, as well as people's growing need for entertainment and drama. We believe you should have the final say in all information about you. This also means you have the responsibility to behave respectfully towards other users.
4. How is Aava different from other projects?
What makes Aava unique is that its starting point is in science and human psychology. Aava is much more than a project to create a friendly website. We see that the Internet is already a fundamental part of the life of homo sapiens. How will the Internet affect our evolution? How should the Internet operate in order to benefit us the most? These deep questions are hardly ever asked let alone answered. Capitalism is the driving force behind most technology, so human well-being is not very high up on the list. It is here!5. Aava is ecological and practical
We talk about carbon footprints and responsibility a lot, but how many of us have really cut back on their social media consuption? Do you know how much energy is consumed in large server halls when you stream videos online? Aava relies on simple solutions to cut back its power consumption. Even file sizes are purposely limited to a reasonable degree. Big Tech and their vast server halls have taught people to not compress their videos and simply waste as much space and bandwidth as possible, but this is hardly in tune with the responsibility movement that's going on. Aava works because every part of it has been designed from the perspective of sustainability from the ground up. This, of course, requires some necessary sacrifices like having to rethink what you will upload and why.6. AI is forbidden on Aava
Not a single part of Aava was made using AI. The code was hand-written from scratch, and all the graphical elements were drawn using Inkscape. The goal is for us to say the same about all the content uploaded on Aava: the uploading of AI-generated content is forbidden. This may seem drastic, but the reason behind it is very simple: every other site and device out there is brimming with AI. Manufacturers are racing to fill their cars and phones with AI assistance. Every image site is so full of AI-generated content that you can barely identify what's human-made anymore. Bot-generated content is drowning out reality. This will have massive implications for the future, too numerous and unknown to name just yet. It makes sense to leave at least one site out of the AI craze. AI isn't all bad. It's a tool. But like any tool, it needs to be used correctly. AI was created to simplify monotonous tasks so we could focus on the creative aspects of life. You know, human life. Instead, many think AI needs to be implemented absolutely everywhere and basically let it live, create, and think for us.7. Contact information
For takedown requests and other inquiries you can currently email the Aava administration at: aavanetwork[at]proton.meThis address, as well as our .dy.fi domain name, will change in the near future.
8. We're Open Source and would like you to join the development team!
All of Aava's policies are up for discussion, and the goal is for the development work to be done as a collective.The (humble) source code of Aava is open source and you can start improving it today: Aava Superapp 17.8.2025 build
Aava doesn't try to become just another content platform, but a friendly think tank of people who are interested in answering the question "what should the Internet be like?"