Content community
for the open web
Strengthen digital ownership. Get more readers. Together.
What is Plankton?
Plankton is a community for everyone with their own website who want to find new readers – without ads, sticky algorithms or platform money.
Plankton’s teaser leads from website to website. It drives traffic away instead of staying on the same platforms of artificial uniformity.
The teasers appear seamlessly in the design of your own website or blog, can be controlled individually and it ensures fresh content without additional editorial work.
This creates a vibrant ecosystem of independent voices that give each other visibility. It’s all without like pressure, click costs or doom scrolling.
with a focus on cooperation rather than competition."
Greater reach
through shared visibility
Readers find you –
not the feed
Community
instead of competition
Data protection compliant
& ad-free
Why Plankton?
Anyone who publishes an independent article or podcast on the open web on their own website can easily connect to Plankton via RSS or WordPress.
Plankton creates a preview of your content and shares this preview as a text-based teaser on other websites that also use Plankton.
When you use Plankton, you strengthen your website and free yourself from the platform dictates of algorithmic feeds and their data vacuum cleaners.
You can choose which website your teaser appears on and which teasers appear on your site, because the content belongs to you.
with visibility, control, and a real audience.”
Sample teasers from plankton.social network
Voices from the network
Frank
Blogger I iHeartBerlin
“We used to be colleagues. Now we compete on Facebook and Instagram with cat videos and advertisements—and ultimately against each other.”
plankton.social in 3 steps
How it works
#1 Connect your site with Plankton
easy & safe to connect with RSS or WordPress
#2 Share content with users
as short teasers on other websites
#3 Win new readers
directly and without detours via social feeds
Mission & Values
For diversity.
For freedom of expression.
For a better internet.
We believe in independent content, in exchange rather than algorithms, and in the idea that everyone has a voice that should be heard. No advertising. No bullshit. Just attitude.
We fight for digital diversity, freedom of expression, and against the platformization of the internet. With every article shared and every new voice, our vision grows: a free, independent, people-friendly internet.
Forever free
Strengthens democracy
Decentralized & independent
Give independent content more freedom
Support
The use of Plankton is and will remain free. We don’t pay investors – we pay for servers, support, and software. Every amount counts, even small ones. With your support, you enable:
_* stable operation without advertising and data sharing
_* strengthening of the open web as an alternative to tech monopolies
_*new features for better visibility
_* new users and growth of the network
Pay what you can:
We also appreciate your support in any form: