P2P search engine
Search projects from accepted public records and graph paths, not a company-owned feed.
Public internet infrastructure
Bigfoot
The web should be the social network.
Bigfoot is a publicly operated, privately stewarded social/search economy for the web. It makes public search, discussion, citations, evidence, spaces, and useful network work part of the web itself.
The model
Public operation. Private stewardship. One canonical network.
Public nodes operate Bigfoot infrastructure and earn BFT for accepted useful work. Soliton Group LLC privately stewards the canonical protocol, conformance-signed releases, documentation, security process, trademarks, bootstrap infrastructure, and the disclosed 0.5% protocol sustainability fee.
That private stewardship exists at this stage to prevent fragmentation into incompatible forks or a Mastodon-shaped network of instances, policies, and semi-compatible implementations.
Three reinforcing layers
Search, social context, and reusable evidence share one public graph.
Social overlay for the web
Discussion, citations, spaces, bounties, and references attach to URLs, domains, anchors, and documents.
Intelligence cache
Reusable evidence, fact checks, provenance, and research trails become public network material.
Public by design
Post only what you want attached to the public web.
Bigfoot has no private posts, private groups, hidden spaces, or private messages in the protocol. Published records are public, signed, replicable, and visible in the public graph.
Users control what they see through local filters, blocks, and lenses. Lenses can shape a local view, but they cannot delete records, buy truth, or become protocol authority.
Start here
Bigfoot Browser is the easiest way in.
Browse normally. See public context around pages. Join discussion, search the public graph, and participate in useful network work without moving into another company-owned feed.