The Luney manifesto

You shouldn’t have to hide who you are, or tone yourself down, to be online with other people.

Luney is for all of you, including the parts you’re still figuring out. These are the six things we hold to while we build it.

Made by us, for us

Luney is made by queer people. When we decide what to build, or how a setting starts out before you change it, we start from what’s good for LGBTQIA+ people.

A feed in time order

The home feed shows posts newest first, and nothing reorders them to keep you scrolling. If you want help putting your phone down, look in Settings, › Notifications. You can set a daily time reminder, pause notifications for up to a week with Take a break, and set quiet hours that can be different each night.

Safety from the first day

Panic Mode, Trusted Circle, Date Check-in and screenshot warnings were in the first version of Luney. Find help near you came in version 1.4.0, and Hidden words and Limit new accounts in 1.5.0. The Safety page goes through the safety tools and where to find them in Settings.

Your identity, in your words

You type your own pronouns, choose the identity tags that fit or write your own, and change them whenever you like. Tap one of the app’s identity tags on someone’s profile and it tells you what the word means.

Owning our mistakes

When you tell us something has gone wrong, a person writes back. If we break one of our promises, we’ll say so. If you delete your account, you have 30 days to change your mind. After that it’s deleted. The messages you sent stay in other people’s chats, shown as from Deleted Account, and a few records stay, which the privacy policy lists along with why we keep them.

Shaped by the people who use it

Send us an idea from Settings, › Feedback. We open some ideas to a vote by everyone, and the roadmap shows what’s being built. We talk them through with members on the Discord.