About

The purpose of the service is to build a transparent platform that actively resists the hyper-normalized conventions that run through many cloud and file-sharing services: hidden terms, opaque business models, and practices where other people's personal information is treated as raw material. In a saturated digital landscape, we want to be a counterproposal.

Harvesting data and personal information as a form of payment is a wack way to make money. Far too often, it is a model either directly driven by, or indirectly supported by, accelerationists and tech philanthropists who contribute irresponsibly to both the political landscape and the planet's very concrete, tactile reality.

sc-score believes that local communities with shared goals are part of the solution. When technology is owned, governed, and shaped by the people who actually use it - and who can look each other in the eye - it becomes harder to hide behind "free" services that are, in reality, paid for with privacy, attention, and data.

Because if something sounds too good to be true, it often is. Many providers promising free file sharing or unlimited cloud storage exploit our naivety: the rent for their data centers is paid by users feeding systems with information that is later used for targeting, profiling - or for training incompetent artificial intelligences that rarely give anything back to the people who unwillingly supply the material.

Paradoxically, large parts of this website were coded with significant help from various chatbots. Not because we have forgotten the critique, but because we know the world is more complex than that. Convenience and functionality matter deeply to every user and consumer, and we all live in the middle of compromises.

In many ways, sc-score was created to draw attention to the compromises we enter into every day in digital life, but also to shine a light on new paths: other ways of organizing services, other ways of sharing, and other ways of owning infrastructure.

We are convinced these worlds can coexist: high functionality and high ethics. A global network and local rootedness.

The "sc" stands for starling carrier, inspired by starlings: small messengers with the gift for carrying sound and melody. We dream of becoming many: small, resilient communities that can run their own part of the infrastructure - perhaps as a cooperative or membership-based model, where decisions are made openly and the platform's direction is shaped by those who truly have something at stake.

Less centralization. More transparency. More shared ownership.