What is Bigfoot?
Bigfoot is a publicly operated, privately stewarded social/search economy for the web. It lets people discover, discuss, verify, and support the web itself instead of moving everything into company-owned feeds.
FAQ
Common questions about Bigfoot.
Short answers for users, operators, reviewers, and people trying to understand what Bigfoot is not.
What is Bigfoot Browser?
Bigfoot Browser is the free user-facing browser client and easiest way to use Bigfoot. In casual copy, Bigfoot can also refer to the browser experience after the formal product name has been introduced.
Is everything public?
Yes. Bigfoot is public by design. There are no private messages, private posts, private groups, or hidden spaces in the protocol.
Is Bigfoot open source?
No. The code is source-readable and free to run under the project terms. Canonical network participation requires conformance so Bigfoot remains one coherent public network.
Is Bigfoot Mastodon?
No. Bigfoot is not federation. Nodes are infrastructure workers, not communities, admins, moderators, or instances.
Is Bigfoot Reddit?
No. Spaces are public surfaces, not moderated communities. Users shape their own views through filters, blocks, and lenses.
Is Bigfoot a crypto social app?
No. Bigfoot has BFT because public infrastructure and useful work need settlement. It is not a token sale, premine, passive yield, or governance-by-token.
What is the protocol sustainability fee?
Bigfoot includes a disclosed 0.5% protocol sustainability fee on settlement-bearing network activity. It funds Soliton Group LLC stewardship work.
Can Soliton Group LLC censor the public graph?
Soliton Group LLC stewards the canonical protocol and conformance process. It does not own the public graph or give itself ranking, moderation, visibility, or truth authority. Users control their own views locally.