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WhereTheyAsk
A free community platform with pages, friend feeds, groups, events and live rooms, built in the USA around free speech.
https://wheretheyask.com
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What It Does
WhereTheyAsk is a conventional social surface rebuilt without the parts people complain about. Signing in with Google — one email confirmation — immediately gives you a page, a feed, and access to groups, events and live rooms, with a seeded first friend so the feed is not empty on arrival. Your page carries a photo, a few words, a top-8 list and a wall others can write on.
The feed is the stated differentiator: friends, the groups you join and the pages you follow, shown in time order, with no ads. Groups are single-subject rooms, open or private behind a code — the example given is a music-video group where you post what you made and say you own it. Live covers going live from a camera or hosting a webinar, where people in the room can talk and everyone else watches. Events need neither a page nor a group.
Moderation is described as a floor rather than a spectrum: illegal content, threats and scams get removed, the rules are published and linked at the point of sign-up, and the site's position is that free speech comes first within those rules. It is built in the USA, runs as a web app you can add to a home screen, and measures traffic quality with a single script only if you accept — declining leaves the site working.
Key Features
- Google sign-in that provisions a page, feed and first friend immediately
- Chronological feed across friends, joined groups and followed pages, with no ads
- Open groups or private ones behind a join code
- Live rooms from the camera plus webinar hosting, with talk or watch roles
- Events that need no page and no group
- A home-screen installable web app with no store download
Who It Is For
People who left larger networks over opaque moderation or ad-driven feeds and want pages, groups and live rooms without a paid tier.
Key Use Cases
Keeping a personal page and follower feed without ads; running a single-subject group with an access code; going live or hosting a webinar; listing an event without first building a page.
Pricing and Access
Pricing
Free
Access
Free, with sign-in through Google and a single email confirmation. Analytics run from one script and only if you accept the cookie prompt; declining leaves the site functional.
Pricing and availability last checked: Oct 24, 2026 · Source: official website
Privacy and Data Handling
The site links a privacy policy, terms (the published rules), a contact route and a report-content path, and states that one script measures traffic quality only with consent. It is operated under a named US postal address.
Strengths and Limitations
Strengths
Removing ads from the feed and keeping it chronological addresses the two complaints that drive people off larger networks, and the published removal floor is stated at sign-up rather than buried.
Limitations
Sign-in depends on a Google account, so there is no independent registration path.