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Guaranteed-Human

What does it mean that we are the only guaranteed-human social network?

Most social networks are no longer social. They're content platforms, optimized for scale. That made sense when scale meant more people. But now it mostly means more bots, deepfakes, and AI slop.

AI-generated content is everywhere — product reviews, tweets, Reddit threads, blog comments. It’s faster and cheaper to produce, and it performs just as well (sometimes better) than content from actual people. So companies are leaning into it.

The biggest platforms are embracing an AI-first future. They’re not just tolerating synthetic content — they’re actively building toward it. AI replies, AI stories, AI influencers. It’s happening fast, and they’re fine with it because their incentives are aligned: more engagement with less overhead.

Meta is building AI personalities into its social products. Reddit is licensing its data to OpenAI and launching its own AI tools. X has bots replying to nearly every major thread, sometimes indistinguishable from real users. None of this is secret. It’s happening because scale now means “machines that sound like people,” not people themselves.

This has obvious implications for creators and brands. But it also affects regular users. When the internet is mostly synthetic, being human starts to feel like a disadvantage. You’re slower. You need sleep. You don’t post as often. You can’t compete with 24/7 AI output.

What happens next is predictable: people stop contributing altogether. They lurk, or they leave. When you can't tell who’s real, you stop talking.

The result is a version of the internet that’s technically “alive” but doesn’t feel human.

We built Microfone because we didn’t want to live in that reality.

Real People, or Nothing

Microfone is a social network where every post is a voice recording made by a real person. No text-to-speech. No bot replies. No prerecorded messages. Just humans talking to each other.

The constraints are intentional. Microfone is casual by design — a place where people speak in the way they actually think.

Audio is also naturally conversational. People don’t overthink a voice reply the way they overthink a tweet. They just talk. That leads to a more honest kind of interaction. It’s slower than text, but that’s a feature. It changes the rhythm of how people engage.

Why Microfone is Different

Microfone makes a simple promise: every voice you hear belongs to a human. There’s no way to post written content, so there’s nothing for AI to generate. There’s just your voice, and whatever you choose to say. That attracts a different kind of participation. People are more thoughtful. They listen longer. The pace is slower, but the signal is higher.

It also makes it harder to fake scale. You can’t script a hundred riffs. Even if you could, you’d have to speak them. That’s a friction AI can’t bypass — at least not yet. That’s the gap we’re protecting.

Microfone isn’t for everyone. If you like algorithmic feeds, influencer culture, or AI-generated content, you won’t like it here. There’s no growth hack. No viral boost. No one’s keeping score.

But if you want a space where real people talk and listen — without the noise of bots, ads, and performative content — you might feel at home.

It’s not just about authenticity. It’s about preserving something basic and valuable: the sound of people thinking aloud.

That used to be what the internet felt like. We’d like to keep a version of it that still does.

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