A social network without an owner.
Hypersnap is a decentralized social network — built and run by people anywhere in the world. No company. No VC. No single point of control. Here's the longer story.
The network is the people running it.
On most social networks, one company owns the servers, the user database, the moderation rules, and the algorithm. They can change any of those at any time, sell the company, or shut the whole thing down — and your account, your followers, and your posts go with them.
Hypersnap doesn't work that way. The network is made of many independent nodes, each run by a different person. Anyone can run one. The protocol — the rules everyone's nodes agree on — is open source and shared. No single party can change it unilaterally.
You get the same kind of social experience you'd expect from Farcaster — posts, follows, identities, channels. The difference is structural: the network keeps running as long as people keep running it.
Many nodes, no center
Each node holds its own copy of the network and talks to others as a peer. There isn't a head office to call.
Run by people anywhere
Operators are spread across the world. The network gets stronger every time someone new spins up a node.
Decentralization that's actually decentralized.
Farcaster set out to be a decentralized social protocol, and it got most of the way there: open identities, open clients, open data formats. But the data layer that powers all of it — Snapchain — has so far been mostly run by a single team.
Hypersnap takes the open Snapchain code and runs it the way decentralization is supposed to work: many independent operators, no single point of control, no kill switch. Same network, same apps, same identities. Different ownership story.
This isn't a critique of what came before — it's a continuation of the same project, taken a step further by people who want to see it through.
A global community of contributors.
No company, no VC
There's no business entity behind Hypersnap. No investors, no token sale, no founders' equity. The project owes nothing to anyone but the people using it.
Anyone can contribute
Code, docs, design, ideas, running a node, telling a friend — every kind of contribution counts. Nobody needs permission to help.
All in public
Every change is a pull request. Every release, every issue, every conversation is visible at github.com/farcasterorg.
Hypersnap.org is made by Felirami.
The protocol is open source and community-run. This website is a solo developer contribution from Felirami, built to make the new Farcaster easier for people to understand, access, and improve.
Felirami
Solo developer contributing to the new Farcaster. Felirami maintains the portal, keeps it pointed at the Farcasterorg source, and helps contributors find the right next step.
Honest status: still being built.
Hypersnap is alive. There's a public node you can read from right now, and anyone can run their own. The protocol works — the network is real — and the work keeps going every day.
But there isn't a polished consumer app branded "Hypersnap" yet, and we won't pretend otherwise. Today, the most useful things you can do depend on what you're bringing.
What works today
Read the public node. Run a local node. Build with the API. Watch the network grow through public PRs and releases.
Pick the way in that fits you.
Just curious
Follow along. The network grows in public — every line of code, every decision, every release lives on GitHub.
Follow on GitHubBuild something
Read the docs, query the public node, integrate against the API. Anything built for Farcaster works here too.
Read the docsHelp build it
Run a node, ship a PR, improve the docs, design a logo, write a guide. Contributions of every kind are welcome.
Ways to help