About Agora
The vision behind
the square.
Agora is not a feature list. It is a set of choices about what a public space owes the people who enter it — and one person’s attempt to build exactly that.
01 — Why Agora exists
The mainstream square is designed to make you pay.
Not with money — with attention. And when speech is the raw material, the platforms that profit from it have a quiet interest in which opinions travel and which ones stall.
On the big platforms, you are the product. Ads are the engine, engagement is the fuel, and algorithms decide what gets seen — including, quietly, what gets un-seen. The result is a public square where challenging the status quo, criticizing governments, or raising uncomfortable issues becomes a career risk for your own reach. Free speech, when it depends on an invisible ranking function, is free speech on a leash.
Agora inverts the model. You are the citizen. The feed is chronological — the newest thing is simply the newest thing. There are no ads to serve, so there is no reason to rank, suppress, or shape your voice. What remains is a hard, public line where freedom ends: vulgarity, harassment, hate, and content that endangers people are moderated strictly, consistently, and under rules anyone can read.
We refuse to
- Sell your attention back to you
- Rank speech by engagement score
- Quietly demote uncomfortable opinions
- Moderate in secret, against secret rules
We will
- Keep the timeline strictly chronological
- Let dissenting opinions travel as far as the rest
- Enforce strict boundaries against vulgarity & abuse
- Publish our moderation rules in plain language
02 — The person behind it
Built by one. For everyone.
Agora is a solo project, built with care for the people who use it. Every iteration starts with a simple question: does this make conversation feel more human?
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Jayvardhan Bhaskar
App & website developer · Agora
I’m Jayvardhan Bhaskar, the developer of the Agora app and website. I’m building this project one screen, one conversation, and one improvement at a time.
I started Agora because I believe today’s social media does not always make room for free speech and can suppress voices that challenge the prevailing view. I wanted to build a space where people can speak openly, with clear rules against abuse. It’s also a fun project for me to build and keep improving.
The goal is simple: less noise, more room for real conversation.
Agora is still growing, and your feedback helps shape what comes next. If something feels thoughtful — or could work better — an email is the best way to reach me.
03 — Send a signal
Have a question, idea, or press inquiry?
Everything sent to Agora is read by the person who writes the code. The form, the direct addresses and what each one is for live on their own page now — this one can stay about the vision.
Bring your voice. Leave the noise.
A more thoughtful square starts with the people in it. Try Agora for Android and help shape what comes next.