We Lost Something Important
Over the past two decades, something fundamental shifted. Our conversations, our memories, our connections - they stopped belonging to us. They live on servers we don't control, inside apps that treat our personal lives as data to be harvested, analyzed, and sold to the highest bidder.
We gave up ownership of our digital lives so gradually that most of us didn't even notice. A "free" app here, a convenient service there - each one taking a little more of our privacy in exchange for convenience. Toju exists because we believe it's time to take it back.
No Paywalls. No Premium Tiers. Ever.
You know the playbook: launch a free product, build a user base, then start locking features behind subscription tiers. Can't share your screen at more than 720p unless you upgrade. File size limited to 8 MB. Want noise suppression? That's a premium feature now.
We refuse to play that game. Every feature in Toju is available to every user, always. There is no "Toju Nitro," no "Pro plan," no artificial limitations designed to push you toward your wallet. Communication is a human need, not a luxury - and the tools for it should reflect that.
Privacy Is a Right, Not a Feature
Most communication platforms collect everything: who you talk to, when, for how long, what you share. They build profiles of your social graph, your habits, your interests. Even services that claim to care about privacy still store metadata on their servers.
Toju is architecturally different. Your data goes directly from your device to your friend's device. We don't have your messages. We don't have your files. We don't have your call history. Not because we promised not to look - but because the data never touches our infrastructure. We built the technology so that privacy isn't something we offer; it's something we literally cannot violate.
Built from the Heart
Toju wasn't born in a boardroom with revenue projections. It was born from frustration - frustration with being the product, with watching friends get locked out of features they used to have for free, with the growing feeling that the tools we depend on daily don't actually serve our interests.
We build Toju because we genuinely want to make the world a little better. The internet was supposed to connect people freely, and somewhere along the way, that mission got hijacked by business models that exploit the very connections they facilitate. Toju is our small act of reclaiming that original promise.
Transparent by Default
Every line of Toju's code is publicly available. You can read it, audit it, contribute to it, or fork it and build your own version. This isn't a marketing decision - it's an accountability decision. When you can see exactly how the software works, you never have to take our word for anything.
Open source also means Toju belongs to its community, not to a company. Even if we stopped development tomorrow, the project lives on. Your communication infrastructure shouldn't depend on a single organization's survival.
Our Promise
- We will never lock features behind a paywall.
- We will never sell, monetize, or harvest your data.
- We will always keep the source code open and auditable.
- We will always put users before profit.
- The Myxelium team
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