Patrick Frank, building NAiTIVE in the open
1248 real humans already on the list
none of them were real.
this is every feed now, you can't tell the humans from the bots.
that's the problem.
No engagement bait. No AI slop. No "people you may know" who turned out not to be people. Just the humans you follow, in their own words, shot on their own camera.
MySpace had it right. The handful of people who actually matter to you, ranked, right there on your profile. Somewhere along the way, everyone dropped it. So we brought it back, and made it mean something. Put someone in your 8 and they know. Their posts move to the top of yours. The inner circle, out loud.
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0 humans here now
Everywhere else, trending is bots boosting bots, and an engine deciding what gets to steal your day. Here, every like, every reply, every share is a verified human. So when something rises, it's because real people actually gathered around it. That's an algorithm you can trust.
There are real, verified humans near you right now. Not bots with a city in their bio. Opt in, and we keep it to your metro, never your exact spot, so you can find the people sharing your corner of the world without giving up where you live.
🔒 city level only. we never show your exact location, and it's off until you turn it on.
No "hey dear." No crypto bots. No fake giveaway sliding into your requests. Because there are no bots here, your DMs are just the people you actually want to hear from. End-to-end encryption is on the way.
Every photo is captured live, in the app. Never uploaded from a camera roll, never generated, never face-tuned into someone you're not. What you see is what actually happened, a few seconds ago.
LIVE
Anyone who promises bots are impossible is lying. So here's the honest version: getting in as a real human is easy, faking one is expensive, and we catch what slips through in the open.
A few seconds of camera when you join. Your verified human status is set by our servers in that moment. A script can't switch it on, and you can't self-assign it.
Humans let humans in. You arrive already connected to the person who vouched for you, which keeps growth clean and makes ban-evasion hard.
No paste. No AI "polish." Photos shot live, never uploaded. We use AI to keep AI out, never to author a person, a post, or a face.
And we keep raising the cost, in the open. Passkeys, quiet device checks, and encrypted DMs are on the way. We'd rather build them honestly than pretend they're finished on day one.
It's not anti-technology.
It's anti-fake.
1248 real humans already through the door, and counting