The why
The internet should feel like .
“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”
sieve was built to fulfill a central promise of the internet: to allow you to be the fullest version of yourself. It does this by allowing you to:
- discover the things that you want to spend time doing
- spend more time actually doing those things.
The current state of the internet is in opposition to those goals. Right now, the internet is mainly dominated by platforms whose goal is to keep you trapped within their feed. They prefer that you spend more time on their platform, and secondarily will give you the content you want.
We don't care where there are gems. You should be able to freely find your favorite writing independent of what platform it was posted on. We'll make it easy for you to do so.
If you find yourself mindlessly scrolling slop content, it isn't your fault. Unfortunately, platforms are designed and optimized exactly to keep you on them. It's not a coincidence that the word that many platforms use to describe their main page is a feed. It invokes imagery of troughs for livestock. You are not livestock to be domesticated. So break free.
We directly ask you what you want, help you find more ways to be yourself, and will only ever serve you what you explicitly opt in to so that you can spend more time on the internet in a gratifying way.
I hope that you can use sieve to become more yourself, discover new interests that you didn't know you had, and explore niche and central conversations on the internet.
Ready to look around?