I have access to the blog now, so I wanted to post. Here's some fun details about the PluralLog Friend app - coming to you soon!

Features:

Users can share with volume-level granulatiry, giving permission to specific features. This means users can do things like share analytics insights but not the member identities, share journals but not members, share members + journals + analytics but not polls, etc;

Federated servers can be run with self signed certificates, and users can approve self signed certificates. This allows users to run servers entirely locally, or within ie their own house

Sharing & System friendship always requires system approval. Even if a user has a System's invite code, that SYstem has to do a final confirmation to accept them as a friend

Users can have optional handles

Data is private to server operators

The Friend app prevents screenshots and screen recording of shared data (we're using a special promotional build)

User can sync manually, or app can automatically sync intermittently

The Friend app does not store data to disk, and does not store decrypted data in cache, meaning that they do not keep live copies insecurely, and without capturing their key exchange the System user can invalidate their sharing to prevent access/decryption

[Text: This system is a Reform Jew!]

And it’s all for “Sherlock’s” subsystem but you know how brains work. It’s all just another Us problem that has compartmentalized itself into “Sherlock stuff” and then compartmentalizes itself even further into the alters within that subsystem

So naturally I have spent some time of my shift at work mapping this all out

i used to be a prolific (fanfiction) writer. i can barely formulate tumblr posts at this point. it's not even that i was a particularly good writer, but it came so easily to me to put words on paper. i've always been a little bad at talking out loud due to my autism, but that used to be much better too.