# Features The purpose of OpenSocial Protocol is to: 1. Allow users to own their social graph, such that they could travel to different applications without the need to start from scratch to build their reputation and followings 2. Empower Creators to build and own their community, so that they could monetize easily 3. Reduce the barriers to entry for any developers to build a social application, by providing templates and open sourced social graph for developers to build on 4. Promote freedom of speech, decentralisation and censorship resistance for users and content through making the protocol permissionless and on-chain storage of data --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://gitbook.opensocial.co/features.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.