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What Peerkola is
The idea in two minutes, and the handful of words the rest of this documentation uses.
Peerkola is a social feed without a ranking model. Nothing decides what you see based on what might keep you around longest. Instead, posts are passed from person to person.
The idea in short
- You join a few channels, topics like Science & Tech or Nature & Travel.
- When someone publishes a post in one of them, it goes to a few readers in that channel. You might be one of them.
- Every reader decides: forward the post, and it goes on to a few more people who haven’t seen it. Drop it, and it stops with them.
- A post travels as far as people keep passing it on. When everyone who got it has dropped it, or nobody is left who hasn’t seen it, its journey is over.
- Reviewing a post earns you a token. Publishing a post costs tokens. So everyone who posts has read other people’s posts first.
Your feed only holds a few posts at a time. When you’ve decided on all of them, it stays empty until new posts reach you.
Words used in this documentation
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Post | Something someone published: text, photos, videos, or a mix. |
| Channel | A topic. A post is published into exactly one channel and only travels inside it. |
| Feed | Your queue of posts waiting for your decision. It holds up to 20 at a time. |
| Forward | Pass a post on. It goes to a few more readers. |
| Drop | Stop a post. It won’t travel any further through you. |
| Review | Either of the two: every forward and every drop is a review. |
| Token | What you earn by reviewing and spend by publishing. It can’t be bought. |
| Price | What publishing a post costs right now, in tokens. It moves with demand. |
| Trust | A score from 0 to 100 for how carefully you read. It decides how far your forwards go. |
| Attention check | A marked test post that asks you to forward or drop it. It feeds your trust score. |
| Post language | The language a post is written in. You only receive posts in languages you read. |
Where to go next
If you’re new, Creating an account walks you through sign-up. If you already have one, Your feed is the best place to start.
Peerkola is in beta. Features can change, and data may occasionally be reset while the platform is being built.
Something missing or unclear?
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