Open source · Local first · Version 1.0 in development
Macksie connects your identity, people, communication, files, and creations across your own devices — without renting your digital life from an empire.
What Macksie Looks Like
Not a game. Not another app. A world that replaces the desktop — where your identity, your people, and your files all live in one place you control.
In Development
Working Prototype
Concept
Prototype
In Development
The Macksie Promise
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One identity that travels with you across devices and experiences. Not owned by a platform. Not rented from a corporation. Yours — signed, portable, and permanent.
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Your communication, files, people, creations, and history stay connected in one place. No silos. No lock-in. Everything you make and share belongs to you.
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Run it yourself on your own hardware. Inspect every line of code. Leave any time without losing who you are. No overlords. Free people. Open code.
How It Works
A Macksie profile is your own node — your own machine — speaking for you on the internet. When your node is online, your site is live. When it's offline, it simply isn't there. Nobody stands between you and your identity.
Each domain is served only by its authorized node. No CDN cache. No fallback. No impersonation.
When a node goes offline, its site stops. When it comes back, it resumes. The identity owns the domain, not the machine.
What Actually Works Today
Every status below is verified from the source repository. No invented features.
The Road to 1.0
Version 1.0 is a real product two people can use today — not a demo, not a preview.
Ed25519 keys that travel with you
Pair, trust, sync, revoke
Kin protocol — signed trust between people
End-to-end encrypted messaging
AES-256-GCM encrypted Vault
Guardian-assisted identity recovery
Linux application (Tauri)
Full Macksie node in your pocket
What this foundation will make possible
Games with real identity and tournaments. Music with Lightning tips. Encrypted family photo albums. A public profile you actually own. A community that belongs to its members, not a corporation.
Transmission 001
Before there was a network, there was one person with a vision and a machine. Maxwell — an immortal knight who has carried this idea for twenty years — booted the first Macksie node on an ordinary Dell OptiPlex running Fedora Linux.
The Keep came online. Ed25519 keys were generated. A device was named.
An identity was claimed: maxwell.macksie.com.
No corporation issued that identity. No platform approved it. No terms of service were accepted. Maxwell simply declared it, signed it with his own keys, and the network began with one node.
The future is never written. It is only replicated, fragment by fragment, across every brain in the mesh.
Read the full transmissionThe Origin
Macksie began as Maxwell's long-held idea for a personal internet — not a platform you rent, but a world you own. It became a father-and-daughter project with Scarlett, the second identity on the network.
Dame, Maxwell's personal AI assistant, helps carry the work forward. The code is open. The hardware is ordinary. The vision is twenty years old and finally becoming real.
"I have imagined Macksie for nearly twenty years. I sold my car to buy back the time to build it. Now my daughter and I are creating a personal internet that belongs to the people using it."— Maxwell, Director of Time
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