InfoFlow was founded with the vision that a new social-media style platform, but dedicated to solely information and education, was neccesary to create properly divided spaces on the internet.
Our platforms has algorithms not designed for boosting infleuntial content, but designed for education and information provision.
We have also designing a platform without a profit oriontation, and aim to never treat our users as simply ad viewers.
Please check out the About Us section to find our more about our founding principles.
After you have created an account, you will be asked a number of questions about what kind of information you are interested in.
Up next will be what sites you currently use to get information.
(If your current site(s) is/are social media, you can put in who you follow)
From there, we will begin to generate a feed of information of information for you that you might be interested in.
Here we aren't interested in showing you what your friends are up to.
The only thing you'll see of your friends if which information providers they follow, and if they're responded to any articles with new information or links.
We think ensuring you have consciously made all the choices for what information you get shown will improve your critical analysis of new information.
We want you to learn, and the internet is a great source of knowledge. But its also easy to take all information at face value.
Thats why we let you take control of the personalisation, to avoid getting stuck only seeing information you agree with.
This means it might take us a little longer than most sites to start providing you favourite content becasue we don't track your engagement with articles or your searches.
But making good use of the 'information like this' button on any article you find interesting and subscribing to lots of information providers you're interested in means we'll start to pick up your tastes quickly.
Here we aren't interested in anything you do off our site.
Therefore, we make sure the only information we have access to is information you've directly provided into our site.
This means the only cookies we are completely neccesary to loggining in and used as minimally as possible, and we dont utilise or search for any cookies you may already have.
Although sadly contrary to the aims of InfoFlow, for the time being we do utilise google adsense to create revenue.
This means that any cookies saved by google on your computer, or any google personalisation you have will appear within adverts on this site.
If you want to avoid this, once signed up for our site, we have a tutorial on minimising the cookies that google and other service providers can store on your computer.
This is why you may feel you are getting ad personalisation on our site, but we guarentee this does not overlap with your feed, or in any way influences the information you're provided.
Please do check out the learn more section, to see what our plans for the future are, as we hope to one day be able to reform the way that advertisers control the information space
But this can only be possible by our site growing, and recieving feedback from our users, as there are multiple ways this community can go about achieving these aims, so please do get started below and help us achieve this vision
If you're interested, why not sign up for our pilot, all we need is your email (for account recovery) and a password, everything else is optional!
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