--- title: "Open Media: one open app for your social world" description: "Post everywhere. Message everyone. One app. Build the open communication layer for humanity, where people can communicate across networks, control how information reaches them, and keep ownership of their identity, relationships and content, whichever app they use." canonical: https://openmedia.site/ last-updated: 2026-10-25 --- # Open Media One app for your social world. Post everywhere. Message everyone. One app. Build the open communication layer for humanity, where people can communicate across networks, control how information reaches them, and keep ownership of their identity, relationships and content, whichever app they use. > Apps are doorways. The person is the constant. No app should permanently own your identity, audience, social graph, content, recommendations, message history or governance rights. Open Media is one doorway. Anyone should eventually be able to build another on the same open protocol, and you should be able to walk through whichever one you like. ## What Open Media does - **Everything together.** Posts from several networks in one feed, and every conversation, chat or email, in one inbox organised by person rather than by app. One post goes to every network you choose. - **Your feed belongs to you.** Choose Raw, simply newest first, or Relevant, a small set of signals you can see. Every ranked post explains itself with “Why this?”, including the private data it did not use. - **You are not locked in.** Export everything or delete your account at any time. Public posts are open to everyone through a free API. The goal is identity and content that work in any app. - **Feed:** One mixed stream from Open Media, Farcaster, Lens, Hive and DeSo, newest first or transparently ranked. - **Clips:** Short videos, full screen, one at a time. The same posts as Feed, just a different way to watch. - **Messages:** Open Media chats, email and bridged chat apps side by side, organised by the people you talk to. Open Media is a free, open-source app for iPhone, Android and the web (MIT licence). It reads public posts from Farcaster, Lens, Hive and DeSo, keeps every post's source and link, and explains every ranked post with "Why this?". ## For AI agents and developers Everything a person can do in the app has an interface here. Public data needs no account or key. - [Agent guide](https://openmedia.site/agents): when to use Open Media and how to call it. - [API documentation](https://openmedia.site/docs): REST endpoints, MCP servers, errors, limits and examples. - [Developer portal](https://openmedia.site/developers): quickstart and access tokens. [Sandbox](https://openmedia.site/sandbox): test mode and a private local stack. - [Authentication](https://openmedia.site/auth.md): which calls need no credential and how to get the person's token. - [OpenAPI 3.1](https://openmedia.site/v1/openapi.json), [llms.txt](https://openmedia.site/llms.txt) and the public MCP server at `https://openmedia.site/open/mcp`. - In the browser, this page registers WebMCP tools (search, feed, events, profiles) through `document.modelContext`. ## Frequently asked questions ### Is Open Media free? Yes. The app and its source code are free and open source under the MIT licence. There are no ads by default. ### Do my friends need to join for it to be useful? No. Open Media is useful on day one by connecting the networks and email accounts you already use. Friends on Open Media are a bonus, not a requirement. ### Can it show my Instagram, X, TikTok or LinkedIn feed? Not today. Those companies do not offer open access for apps like Open Media, and Open Media does not scrape them. It connects to networks that allow it (Farcaster, Lens, Hive, DeSo and email). ### Do I need a crypto wallet? No. You sign in with your email. Some open networks use blockchain technology behind the scenes, but you never need to understand it, hold tokens or pay fees to read the feed. ### Can AI agents use Open Media? Yes. Public data needs no key: agents can use the MCP servers, the REST API, WebMCP tools in the browser, or the plugin for Claude Code and Codex. Acting for a person needs that person’s own token. ## Pricing Open Media is free: no ads by default, no subscription and no API key for public data. Payments between people (products, services, tips and paid posts) carry no Open Media fee today. See [pricing](https://openmedia.site/pricing). ## Learn more [About](https://openmedia.site/about) · [Contact](https://openmedia.site/contact) · [Privacy](https://openmedia.site/privacy) · [Source code](https://github.com/mihirkavi/open-media)