Gist is the federated social network inside the Afrilingua app, built on the AT Protocol. One unified content record. 23 post kinds. A vertical autoscroll short-video feed. And translation across posts, DMs, calls and documents — with African languages first-class.
23 kinds under a single ai.afrilingua.feed.content lexicon. One profile. One composer. No silos.
Most social apps make you pick a network for each format — short video here, podcast there, longform somewhere else. On Gist, every post is the same kind of object with a kind discriminator. The surface adapts; your identity, your followers and your data don't fragment.
Quick takes, multi-part threads, quote replies.
Single shots and galleries with captions.
Vertical, full-bleed, autoscroll feed.
Full-length watch surface with chapters and captions.
Low-latency, side-rail chat, auto-archive.
Voice notes, episodes, full podcast seasons.
Tracks, releases and subscribable playlists.
24-hour ambient updates with reactions.
Longform writing and newsletter issues.
Lightweight, native, shareable.
Spaces-style. Hosts, stage, hands-up.
1:1 and group, audio and video. CallKit, CarPlay, PushKit.
Federated direct messages. Read receipts. Voice notes.
Synced playback, shared chat, timeline reactions.
RSVP, location, calendar add. Lives on profiles.
Pay through Flutterwave, Stripe or Paystack.
Rate places, products, content — federated.
Co-authored posts and prompts with submission flow.
Quote, remix, react — first-class semantics.
Public, private, paid. Feed, members, events, listings.
Notifications as a top-right shade — no infinite tab.
People, communities, listings, custom feeds.
Sub-tabs by kind: Posts, Videos, Listens, Reads, Photos, Saved.
Vertical. Full-bleed. Sound on. Like the short-video apps you already know — but federated.
Inline play. Sound on. A live comment ticker over the bottom of the clip. Tap the avatar to follow, hold to peek the thread, swipe left for the creator's profile.
The exact same record powers long video, livestreams and watch parties. Creators publish once; the surface adapts to the format. Followers come along regardless of which app they're on.
Most apps treat language as a settings dropdown. Gist treats it as the substrate.
Send in English, your friend reads in Yoruba. Reply in French, you read in Pidgin. Translation happens inline. End-to-end encrypted DMs translate too — bundled inside the same ciphertext on send, decrypted client-side, server never sees the words.
Every post on Gist can be read in your language with a tap. The original is always one tap away (provenance: never hide the author's actual words). Comment in yours — the author sees it in theirs.
Live captions in calls translate what the other person is saying — in real time. Speak Yoruba into a voice note, your follower in São Paulo hears the gist in Portuguese.
Aura drafts in your strongest language and sends in theirs — preserving tone and context, not just words. Same for replies that arrive in a language you don't read.
Afrilingua means African language. We're building the first social network where these aren't second-class:
The AT Protocol is the open social network protocol. Records you create on Gist live as signed objects on a Personal Data Server (PDS). By default your PDS is hosted by Afrilingua — but the protocol is open, so you can move your PDS to any compatible host without losing your handle, your followers or your history. Free .car export, forever.
Gist federates bidirectionally with Bluesky and the wider ATmosphere. Reach Mastodon and the fediverse via open ATProto ↔ ActivityPub bridges. One social graph, no walled garden.
Twenty-three: text, threads, photo, short video, long video, livestream, audio & podcast, music & playlists, stories, articles & newsletters, polls & quizzes, live audio rooms, calls, DMs, watch parties, events, listings & commerce, reviews, collabs & challenges, rich reposts, communities, activity and discover. All under one unified ai.afrilingua.feed.content lexicon — one profile, every format.
Yes. Short videos play in a vertical, full-bleed autoscroll feed — sound on, inline play, comment ticker. The same record also powers long video, livestreams and watch parties.
Yes — across posts, DMs, calls and documents. Encrypted DMs translate end-to-end: translations are bundled inside the same ciphertext on the sender's device, so the server never sees the plaintext. African languages — Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Swahili, Pidgin, Zulu, Amharic, Twi — are first-class.
Bluesky is one app on the AT Protocol. Gist is another, and they federate. The big differences: Gist sits inside the Afrilingua app alongside Aura with one shared identity and memory; Gist supports far more content kinds (short video, livestream, podcast, listings, events, communities, calls) on the same federated record; and translation is a first-class layer.
By default @you.afrilingua.ai. The handle is a portable identifier on the AT Protocol — you can take it with you to another host without losing your followers or history.
Yes. Records live on a Personal Data Server (PDS) hosted by Afrilingua by default. Because the protocol is open, you can move your PDS to any compatible host without losing handle, follows or posts. Free .car export, forever.
Aura can help you draft posts, replies and DMs from real context. But every send passes through a confirmation gate. Aura never publishes to Gist without you explicitly approving the action.
No. Gist is one half of the Afrilingua app. Aura is the other half. You install Afrilingua once and get both, with one identity and one memory.