When you show your work-in-progress for a critique or quick reaction, you don’t want the entire internet to see it.

Litopia has the best author-privacy settings of any writing website, period. You decide who sees your work – and when you delete it, it’s gone for good.

Granular privacy controls are just one of the myriad benefits of becoming a member of Litopia, the oldest writing colony on the ‘net.

Now that Facebook has served notice on its users that it intends to feed all their personal writing into its own AI Large Language Model, it might be a good time for writers who value their privacy to leave that platform. Admittedly, the cost of belonging to Facebook (free!) is rather less than the modest annual membership fee that Litopia charges. But that, of course, doesn’t tell the whole story.

There’s a saying on the net that “If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.”

Research shows that for the year ending March 2023, Facebook generated $226.93 for each user it has (US & Canada, data from Statista). They make this money by selling your data and by showing you highly-targeted advertising.

By adding users’ own writing to Facebook’s AI operation – without any compensation to the creator, of course – they will be profiting even more from their estimated 3 billion users.

Litopia stands apart from everything that Facebook represents. We are human-sized. We prize community over profit. We don’t sell your data – ever. And we make it easy for you to privately share your work-in-progress with selected reviewers – and when you’re done, to delete all traces.

Shouldn’t you try Litopia now? We’re waiting for you!