Haven
Self-hostable private blogging
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Haven is a self-hosted private blogging platform designed as an alternative to social media for sharing content with family and friends. It lets users post text and photos, control exactly who can see each post, and follow other Haven sites through a built-in reader β all without advertisements, tracking, or algorithmic feeds.
The platform is deliberately simple to use and can be deployed on your own server, a Raspberry Pi, or a cloud provider. A managed hosting option is also available for those who want a private space without managing infrastructure. There are no third-party analytics, no data harvesting, and no monetisation of user content.
Haven is designed for anyone who wants to share personal content β photos of family, private thoughts, or updates for a close circle β with the people they choose, on infrastructure they control, without surrendering privacy to large social platforms.
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