You can't really express yourself under surveillance. Ad-based social media (facebook, twitter, snapchat, tiktok, etc.) profit by spying. Here's just a sample of what separates Asylum:

• No forced registration (even Signal requires phone number)
• No upload of phone contacts
• No persistent location tracking
• No snooping of clipboard data
• No screenshots allowed
• No forced permanence—everything can be edited or deleted
• No ads, no personal data collection
• No sniffing of installed apps on your device (WhatsApp does this)
• No native microphone access (WhatsApp, Facebook, Siri, Alexa, etc.)
• No credit cards or billing addresses saved in our files
• No corporate bureaucracy or government lobbyists

A key component of trustless systems is noncollection. Even if our network is compromised, an attacker can't steal data we never collected in the first place.