Announcement

Why We Built Connect How many people are in your phone’s contact list? Hundreds? Thousands? Now — how many of them have you talked to in the last six months? Most of us accumulate contacts the way we accumulate browser tabs: endlessly, with good intentions, and with no system for actually managing them. We meet someone at a conference, exchange info, and then… nothing. Important relationships fade not because we stop caring, but because we don’t have a system. ...

What Is a Webring? Webrings were one of the earliest forms of community building on the internet. In the 1990s, before search engines dominated discovery, webrings linked together sites with shared interests. You’d visit a site, click “next” or “previous,” and travel through a curated ring of related pages. The original webrings died off as Google became the default way to find things online. But something was lost in the process: the serendipity of stumbling on a small, personal site that someone poured their energy into. The web became centralized, discoverable only through algorithms that favor engagement over substance. ...

Why Subversive Software? The word “subversive” might sound aggressive or destructive, but our mission is anything but. We’re subversive in the most hopeful sense: we’re working to undermine systems that exploit people and replace them with tools that empower individuals. The Problem Modern software often treats users as products. Our data is harvested, our attention is monetized, and our privacy is treated as negotiable. We’re tracked across websites, our behaviors are analyzed, and our information is sold to the highest bidder. ...