Mainstream platforms like Facebook and X make money by harvesting personal data and using algorithmic feeds to keep you glued to the screen. In contrast, MeWe advertises itself as “one of the world’s largest decentralized social media networks” with no ads, no targeting, and no newsfeed manipulation. It’s member-supported... via subscriptions, not ads, and promises strong privacy rights... the founder even notes MeWe’s “Privacy Bill of Rights” meets Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid standards. In practice, this means on MeWe you control your feed and data, not Big Tech. As EPIC puts it, most social sites engage in “surveillance advertising” that “harms privacy” by microtargeting ads to users, whereas MeWe’s model avoids that entirely. We’ll break down exactly how MeWe works, what its Web3 features do, and compare it side-by-side with alternatives like Facebook, X, Mastodon, and Bluesky.