You meet, and then you connect.
Two ways in, and both need a person. Everyone else has no route to you.
Two ways in.
In person, or through someone you both trust.
Nothing above the line arrived from someone who was not let in. There is no path for it to take.
Show this to the person in front of you. Their phone scans it, both of you accept, and the line between you exists.
In person. Physical presence is the ceremony. It cannot be botted, bought or farmed.
Introduced. Someone you both trust hands over the real keys, over lines that are already encrypted.
There is no screen for this. A person you have not accepted cannot address you, so nothing arrives to approve, ignore or read.
Everyone else. Not a blocked message. Not a spam folder. No delivery at all.
Sarah vouched for Nik.
She has met him in person. Ask him something only he would know before you accept.
The people you trust are the directory.
No lookup by name or number. To reach somebody far away, a mutual contact introduces you.
Nobody adds you to anything.
You have been put into a group you never asked to join, where everyone could see your number. That does not happen here.
Sarah invites you to "Street party"
14 members. Joining lets you post here. Nobody in it can message you privately.
Every connection has its own switch.
Accepting someone does not put you on a list. It creates a single private line between the two of you, and that line answers to you alone.
Pause
Held quietly at our relay. Nothing is delivered and nothing is lost.
Block
The line stops carrying anything at all, in both directions.
Delete
The line is gone. Reaching you again means meeting you again.