Welcome

Mirdove is a decentralized ActivityPub-based network for topic-specific human connection, where AI finds high-signal matches and Soroban escrow makes introductions intentional instead of spammy.

The Mirdove Platform

Mirdove is built around a deliberately small vocabulary of concepts, because the best systems stay simple. At the heart of it is the Intent, a short-lived object that captures exactly what you are looking for in a connection right now. Whether you want to brainstorm an idea, work through a debug session, find a study buddy, match a micro-dating partner, or just drop into a voice lounge, each Intent carries a type that describes the mode of collaboration you have in mind. You choose how you want to connect, whether through text, voice, video, or an asynchronous message thread, and a specificity score lets you signal how focused or open-ended your intent really is.

To keep connections meaningful and on-topic, every Intent includes match hints that quietly steer the matching process: flags that make clear you are here for genuine intellectual depth, not professional networking or anything romantic. An escrow policy lets you declare upfront whether a connection stamp is required before a match is confirmed, adding a layer of mutual accountability. And because transparency matters, an AI disclosure field tells you plainly whether AI was involved in finding your match and whether that inference happened locally on your device or on a remote server. The result is a system that stays small on purpose, so every connection it makes can be trusted.

Mirdove Core Principals

Human communication infrastructure has long been dominated by centralized platforms, corporations and governments that sit between people, mediating what can be said, to whom, and under what conditions. User sovereignty is a direct response to this reality. When individuals genuinely control their own identity, data, and communication channels, they are no longer dependent on the goodwill of a third party to participate in public life. They cannot be deplatformed arbitrarily, surveilled without consent, or have their data monetized without recourse. Sovereignty in this sense is not merely a technical feature; it is a prerequisite for meaningful autonomy in an increasingly digital world.

Decentralized, federated networks are the architectural foundation that makes user sovereignty durable. A centralized system, no matter how well-intentioned, creates a single point of control that can be pressured, compromised, or captured by regulators, by bad actors, or by the slow drift of institutional priorities. Federated infrastructure distributes that risk across many independent nodes, so that no single failure can silence an entire network. This design philosophy mirrors the resilience principles behind the internet's original architecture: a system that routes around damage, whether that damage is technical, political, or commercial.

Open source development is the thread that ties sovereignty and decentralization together and makes them trustworthy. Transparency is not just an ethical posture; it is a functional guarantee. When the critical components of a communication system are publicly auditable, anyone can verify that the software does what it claims to do. There is no need to take a vendor's word for it. Community-driven development also means that the people most affected by a system have a genuine voice in how it evolves, and that no single company can unilaterally change the rules. Together, these three principles, sovereignty, decentralization, and openness, form a coherent vision of communication infrastructure built to serve people rather than extract from them.