Bigfoot Browser
The web is the social network.
Browsing does not have to be solo. Rediscover the web, with people in it.
People, wherever you go
The conversation lives where the page is.
Read an article and see what people are saying about it, right there. Follow a thread on a site you love without leaving for a feed somewhere else. The web stays the place. The conversation is already in it.
Yours to switch
On when you want people. Off when you want the web to yourself.
The social layer is a switch, not a condition. Turn it on, and every page shows the conversation around it. Turn it off, and Bigfoot is a quiet, private browser. Nobody sees what you browse either way. Only what you publish is public.
Your view, your rules
No algorithm decides what you see.
Follow the people and places you care about. See what is popular, what is active, and what is new, in plain sight. Hide whoever you never want to hear from. Subscribe to views other people maintain, or share your own. You change your view. Nobody changes anyone else's.
Say it where it belongs
Publish, reply, and speak for yourself.
Reply to a page, start a conversation in a Space, or comment on the exact passage you highlighted. Everything you publish is public, and it is yours. No company owns the conversation, and no company decides who gets heard.
Two layers, never mixed
The conversation, and the footnotes.
On any page, you can see what people are saying, or what the web already knows about it: where the facts come from, what holds up, and what's missing. The two never mix. Footnotes are about the page, never about the people talking.
One network
Everyone in the same room.
Bigfoot is one public network, not a federation of separate servers. There are no instances to pick, no communities cut off from each other, and no server owner deciding what you may reach. One network for everyone. Your own way of experiencing it.
How it compares
Side by side.
| Capability | Bigfoot | Bluesky | Mastodon | X | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A company can delete or silence your account | No | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes |
| Take your identity with you | Yes | Partial | No | Partial | No |
| Network model | One network | Federated | Closed service | Federated | Closed service |
| A company feed decides what you see | No | Partial | Yes | No | Yes |
| Subscribe to views other people maintain | Yes | Yes | No | Partial | No |
| Builds an advertising profile from your activity | No | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Tracks activity on other sites and apps | No | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Account required to read public posts | No | No | Partial | No | Partial |
| What you pay with | Nothing | Nothing, for now | Ads | Donations | Ads or a subscription |
Default settings, desktop, as of September 2026, with no extensions installed.
Partial means available with limits or through an optional setting.
Bigfoot has no ads and nothing to subscribe to. Reading is free. Publishing uses BFT, the network's own accounting unit. See how BFT works.
Bigfoot Browser