insteady
A professional social network focused on authentic knowledge sharing and career building without engagement manipulation.
Company Details
- Category
- Communication
- Headquarters
- Hamburg, Germany
- Data Hosting
- EU Only
- Open Source
- No
- Pricing
- freemium
- Website
- https://insteady.net/
About insteady
insteady is a privacy-first professional network built and operated entirely in Germany, with zero US infrastructure dependencies. It's built for professionals and small teams who want to network, share knowledge, and be discovered for their expertise - without engagement algorithms, paid visibility, or follower-count games. The platform runs on EU-only infrastructure (Hetzner, Germany; Bunny.net, Slovenia), uses end-to-end encryption for messaging (Signal Protocol), and is GDPR-compliant by design rather than by retrofit. Discovery works by topic, not by follower count - profiles are found through actual expertise and activity, not paid reach. insteady doesn't just claim to be sovereign - it built its own open-source sovereignty scanner (scan.insteady.net, EUPL-1.2 license) to prove it, and has publicly corrected its own scoring mistakes when audits found them. The scanner is free to use on any domain, not just insteady's own. Currently in early access: the first 50 individual and company profiles that post substantive content get six months of Premium free.
Replaces
insteady is an alternative to: linkedin