What is Plankton?
Plankton is a community for everyone who owns their website and wants new connections beyond dark tech.
Plankton’s teaser leads from website to website. It drives traffic away from platforms and back to websites.
The teasers appear seamlessly in the design of your own website, 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.
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 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 humans.”
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 core use of Plankton is free. We do pay for servers, software and invest our time. That’s why every support counts, even smaller amounts. With your money, you enable:
_* stable operation without advertising and data sharing
_* strengthening of the open web as an alternative to dark tech
_*new features for better visibility
_* new users and growth of the network
Pay what you can:
We also appreciate your support in any form: