quite.space guide

How to use this. Each document covers one area; a fact lives in one place, everywhere else links to it.

Where to begin

• Start — first launch: identity, passphrase, device, backup. Read this first.
• Spaces — what a space is and the kinds there are: a line for two, a group, public by link, broadcast.
• Join — five words, inviting from inside, who decides, revoking access.

Then, by topic

• Talk — messages, replies, media and voice, resonances, the shelf, honest delivery states.
• Listening — hearing the same thing at the same time.
• Posts and atmosphere — publications, drafts, revisions; a scene and sound behind the text.
• Signals — what here matters to you: local attention and an interruption budget.
• Navigator and catalogs — search, bookmarks, how places get found.
• Network — how a connection finds its way: relays, local network, radio. Who can see what.
• Radio — flashing, connecting, the command line.
• Assistant — Quite AI: the context window and what exactly leaves your machine.

Five concepts everything rests on

Identity — your key. Not a login and not an account: nobody issues it and nobody can reset it. It lives on your device.

Device — what you use to enter. One identity can have several, and each signs its own.

Space — a place where something happens. Every kind of place in quite.space is the same space with different settings, not different entities.

Event — the unit of everything: a message, a reaction, a publication, a change of membership. Signed by its author, stored in the space’s journal, never rewritten after the fact.

Node — the program that holds your data and talks to other nodes. There is no server that “owns” your conversations in this scheme.

One rule that explains the interface

A person chooses the action. quite.space chooses the network.

There are no buttons anywhere for “send via relay”, “send over LoRa”, “sync now”. There is an action — write, publish, invite — and the node decides which way it travels, out of whatever is available. For the same reason the interface never says “delivered” when all it knows is “a relay accepted it”: Talk.