Manifesto
A declaration of independence: the promise to treat you as a person, not as data. This is what we believe and, above all, what this site's architecture enforces.
This manifesto is the guiding principle behind every Xiringase project, the Asturian web-editorial-cultural initiative behind this site. EMTI Fervienza is one of those projects, which is why every technical decision here is born of the same convictions.
You can read the full, original version on the collective's site: the Digital Bond Manifesto on Xiringase .
Declaration of Independence of the Digital Bond
To the architects of surveillance capitalism, to the giants of algorithmic extraction, to the merchants of human attention:
We come from a territory that never belonged to you: trust. You have built nothing on it; you have only learned to mine it, to fragment people into profiles and sell off the pieces.
We reject behavioural extraction at industrial scale. We reject the idea that human attention is raw material and that privacy is the default price of existing online. We do not accept that surveillance be the business model and that consent be a maze designed to get lost in.
We're not here to humanise your surveillance or dress it up with privacy settings. We're here to show that your time is up: that something useful, open and dignified can be built without turning people into merchandise.
What holds up every line of code
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The Bond is sovereign
You're a person, not a target.
We don't measure how long we keep you here, nor design tricks to hook you. We don't apply psychological hyper-targeting or chase shadows across the web. We attract minds through the light of the message: you're here because you choose to be, not because you can't leave.
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Counting is science; identifying is politics
Memory for value, amnesia for identity.
Our systems can recognise the usefulness and impact of what we do, but they're unable to recognise your identity. We count to understand whether the content is useful; we don't identify in order to profile whoever uses it.
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Architecture over promise
We don't ask you to trust us: we ask you to audit us.
Trust isn't built on our word, but on the code. Privacy isn't a hidden checkbox in a menu, nor an option you have to switch on: it's the system's natural state. What we say we don't do, technically, cannot be done.
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Contextual marketing, not behavioural stalking
We want to earn your trust, not capture your attention.
We give up fingerprinting, cross-site tracking and invisible profiles. If recommendations ever appear, they'll come from the content in front of you, never from following you across the web. We don't trade in your attention.
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Radical transparency
No mazes, no traps.
We reject consent mazes and dark patterns. Technical complexity shouldn't be a tool of control: what we do with technology is written in plain terms, and so is what we don't do.
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Silicon sovereignty
The human mind isn't a resource to be mined.
We favour local AI, private inference and self-hosted models wherever it applies. The intelligence we use is meant to extend your abilities, never to optimise your compulsions or feed on you without your knowing.
These aren't promises: this is architecture
A manifesto without practice is just rhetoric. That's why these principles don't live only on this page: they're written into how we treat — or rather, how we don't treat — your data. No analytics that identify you, no tracking pixels, no tracking cookies, no fingerprinting.
If you want to see what all this means in practice, read how we look after your privacy and under what terms you use the site. We don't ask for faith: we ask you to audit us.
EMTI Fervienza is a Xiringase project, governed by the Digital Bond. Privacy isn't an option we switch on: it's the ground everything else is built on.