If you’re anything like us, you’ve been around social media since the early days, when we saw the hope and promise of what it could be.

And you’ve probably been disappointed with the ever-increasing amounts of attention-seeking, data collection, toxicity, and A.I.

We started with a simple idea: social media should be social. It should help people meet, talk, share interests and build communities. It should not manipulate what people see, turn every relationship into a public score or fill conversations with machines pretending to be people.

Centa is our attempt to build something different, to go back to a time when social media was actually social, a community and a place to find friends.

No ads. No AI. No bots.

Centa does not sell advertising. We do not allow AI-generated accounts or content to overwhelm human conversation. We do not want bots pretending to be people.

When you interact with someone on Centa, there should be a real person on the other side.

No algorithm

Your feed is chronological. You see posts from the people and communities you choose to follow, in the order they were posted.

There is no engagement algorithm deciding that the loudest, angriest or most divisive post deserves the most attention.

We are not trying to keep you scrolling. We are trying to make the time you spend here worth your time.

Your relationships are not a scoreboard

Your followers, the people you follow and your likes are private.

Those numbers should not determine anyone’s status, value or influence. Centa is about participating in conversations, not performing for an audience or competing for attention.

Your data belongs to you

Your personal data is never sold, shared or mined.

Centa does not build advertising profiles, track you across the internet or turn your activity into a product for someone else.

This is a community, not a marketplace

Centa is not a platform for influencers and streamers to build audiences so they can sell to them.

It is a place for people to participate, contribute and connect around shared interests. There is no gambling or pornography.

The best online communities are built by people who care about something and want to talk with others who care about it too. On Centa, you can find communities organized around interests, professions, places and ideas. You can also start your own.

This is a work in progress

We are building Centa with our members, which means we want to hear what is working and what is not.

If something is confusing, tell us. If you see behavior that does not belong here, report it. If you have an idea that would make Centa more useful, share it.

We will not implement every suggestion, but we will listen.

We do not think the internet needs another platform promising to change the world. We do think it needs more places where people can talk without being manipulated, monetized or drowned out by machines.

That is what we are trying to build.

Welcome to Centa.

Loren Feldman
Co-founder, Centa