
I built an AI-proof social network at 15, alone
I built an AI-proof social network at 15, alone I'm 15, been coding for a while. Spent the last 5 months building arty.guru - a social network for artists where the whole point is not doing the stuff that makes every other platform suck. I got tired of seeing artists complain that their work ends up in AI training datasets without consent. So I built something where that just doesn't happen. No algorithm deciding if your art deserves to be seen. No ads. No tracking. No Google Analytics, no Facebook Pixel, no third-party cookies. Your followers see your posts. That's it. [+] The privacy is real IPs get hashed for rate limiting and thrown away, never stored raw. Personal data is AES-256 encrypted. Passwords use Argon2id. DMs and voice calls are E2EE via WebRTC. There's an image proxy so external images go through my server instead of leaking your IP to whoever hosted the original. [+] The anti-AI scraping took the most work When you turn on AI protection for a post, the image gets encryp
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