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Run your own
social network.

Powered by our open-source code.

Your company can have a social network for the whole world to use, like x.com — built on the open-source code behind JFK Social. Fork it, brand it, host it. The economics, the creator program, the moderation stack — all of it ships in the box.

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What ships in the box

A complete social network. Not just a starter kit.

When you fork JFK Social you get the entire platform — feed, posts, profiles, follows, moderation, admin tools, and a production-grade monetization engine. Stand up your own brand, your own community, your own economics on day one.

Direct subscription model

Revenue

Premium plans, checkout, billing, and wallet ship with the code. Your platform earns from subscribers, not advertisers — the same economics that let JFK Social pay creators what incumbents structurally cannot.

Influencer rev share, built in

Growth

30% of net subscription revenue in Year 1, 20% in Year 2 and beyond. Permanent first-touch attribution, branded creator landing pages, custom short URLs, and a dashboard that shows every subscriber, every payout, every dispute.

Attribution + payout engine

Operations

Tracks every referral click through to paid conversion. Stripe Connect Express handles bank linking, W-9 / W-8BEN tax forms, monthly payout batches, retries, and 1099 filing — without a separate finance team.

Admin + compliance tools

Safety

Applications queue, two-admin payout approvals, fraud alerts, audit trails, deadline forfeiture sweeps, and compliance reports. Everything you need to run the program safely at scale.

Architecture, not advertising

Why fork instead of building from scratch.

The hard parts are already wired up — and the structural advantages are inherited the moment you deploy.

  • A structural moat, not a feature.

    The 30% / 20% rev share rate is one Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube cannot match — their ad-funded economics will not allow it. You inherit that moat the moment you launch.

  • Influencers are the network-effect breaker.

    Trusted creators move audiences. Direct financial alignment gives them a reason to actively recruit their followers off incumbent platforms and onto yours.

  • Branded creator landing pages.

    Every influencer gets yourdomain.com/i/[slug], a customizable two-panel landing page, OG previews, and link analytics — without you writing any of it.

  • Months saved on the unglamorous parts.

    Attribution edge cases, chargeback clawbacks, 4-month payout deadlines, distributed scheduler locking, and fraud heuristics are already specified, built, and tested.

Open by design

Open-source social media backbones.

Four open protocols and networks anchor everything we build. Your identity, your content, and your audience are not locked to a single company — and they never will be. If we ever fail you, you can leave with everything that matters.

Nostr

Primary Backbone

The open protocol JFK Social runs on. Your identity is a cryptographic key pair you own — not a username we can revoke. Posts relay through a distributed network of relays, so no single company can silence the network. If JFK Social ever fails you, your keys, posts, and followers move to any other Nostr client unchanged.

BlueSky (AT Protocol)

Federated

The protocol behind BlueSky, designed for portable accounts and pluggable algorithms. JFK Social interoperates with AT Protocol so audiences and content can flow between networks without lock-in. Algorithms are user-selectable rather than editorially imposed.

ActivityPub (Threads)

W3C Standard

The open W3C standard that Meta's Threads adopted for federation, alongside hundreds of independent servers. JFK Social speaks ActivityPub so your posts can reach Threads users and the wider fediverse — without giving Meta control of your identity, audience, or reach.

Mastodon

Fediverse

The largest established federated network on the open internet, also built on ActivityPub. Mastodon proved that a non-corporate social network can scale to millions of active users. JFK Social plugs into that same federation, so your audience is not trapped on one company's servers.

Why this matters: walled-garden networks can silence you by deleting your account. Open-protocol networks cannot. Your keys, your followers, your content are portable by design.

The launch playbook

A proven path from beta to public launch.

The same phased launch playbook used for JFK Social ships with the open source. Fork it, adapt it to your brand, follow the script.

Phase 0 — Foundation

Identify your founding 20 creators.

Variety of niches, mix of mid-tier and micro audiences, all authentic users of your platform.

Phase 1 — Closed beta

Invite the founding class.

Validate attribution end to end. Run at least one full payout cycle. Exit when 10+ have a paying subscriber and the admin tools have processed a batch.

Phase 2 — Soft launch

Open applications.

In-platform banners and welcome emails recruit your early applicants. Goal: 500 approved influencers in 30 days, 2,000 paying subscribers in 60.

Phase 3 — Public launch

Earned media + flywheel.

Creator-economy newsletters, comparison content, real-earnings case studies. The flywheel becomes self-funded.

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Stand up your own social network.

The code is open. The economics are built in. The playbook ships with it. Fork the repo and deploy on AWS or your own hardware.

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