About Myynk

• Self-governing communities — Stewards are elected; serious moderation routes through a jury of active members, not a single mod’s whim.
• Transparent ranking — Resonance combines signals like replies, saves, reading time, and cross-references, with time decay and tunable weights. There are no downvotes; disagreement shows up as conversation, not burial.
• Contextual reputation — trust accrues per Space, not as one global popularity score.
• Structured, calm UX — dark-first, typography-forward shell; content first, with curated Space theming (tokens) rather than arbitrary custom CSS everywhere.
• Privacy stance (product intent) — selling user data is a non-goal; feeds are not designed for pay-to-win visibility.

Larger differentiators such as the spatial Canvas view and the real-time River layer inside each Space are on the roadmap after the core community mechanics are proven.

Spaces

A Space is the main container for a community. Creating a Space is gated by account age on the platform; the founding creator is credited as Founding Steward but does not “own” the Space—the platform hosts it while the community governs it. Each Space can have a public-facing topic, description, and tokenized visual identity (banner, accent, density).

Blueprint vision includes three layers per Space—Public Room, Deep Room, and The River—with different access rules. Deep Room and River UI ship in later phases.

Resonance (not upvotes)

Posts earn a rolling resonance score from engagement signals and decay over time. You can request an explanation for many posts (“why am I seeing this?”) via the API’s breakdown. Feed modes like All, New, Popular, Rising, My Spaces, and Fresh in My Spaces give you explicit control over ordering—without hiding the rules behind a black box.

Stewards

Stewards represent the Space: they can drive configuration (within guardrails), feature/pin direction on the roadmap, and trigger jury-related flows. They cannot unilaterally delete posts, ban users without process, or dissolve a Space. No Confidence petitions can revoke steward powers when enough members agree.

Jury & flags

When content is flagged and crosses a threshold, a jury case can open. Jurors are drawn from the community; decisions use a supermajority rule so removal is not trivial mob rule. Non-responding jurors, multi-tier pools (2h vs 24h active members), and Platform Trust Juries are documented goals; some mechanics evolve phase by phase—check release notes and in-app copy for what is live in your deployment.

Content types

Early phases focus on text, links (with previews where enabled), and images. Rich templates (recipes, build logs, events, etc.) and embed-first audio/video are planned for later milestones.

Identity & control

Myynk aims for maximum legible control for the person using the product and restraint in the chrome so writing stays central. Profiles emphasize where you contribute; optional anonymity may apply in context while the account still backs safety and abuse workflows.

Phase 1 (MVP) targets a full loop: accounts, Spaces, posts and comments, Resonance-aware feeds, search, flagging, jury participation, steward flows (including elections and No Confidence), realtime jury alerts, per-Space contribution signals, PWA installability, and a narrow set of operator-only removals for the worst legal/safety categories.

Explicitly later (per product plan): Canvas map, River + Crystallize, Deep Room posting gates, broader structured post types, email as a primary channel, native apps, and monetization layers (e.g. Patron tier, Space subscriptions)—all after the core governance and quality loop feels right.

Stack snapshot: FastAPI + PostgreSQL + Redis + Celery on the backend; Next.js and Tailwind on the web; Clerk for authentication; optional object storage/CDN in production.

Use the in-app flag flow on posts and comments when something violates community norms. A narrow set of categories (e.g. illegal content, CSAM, credible threats of violence against people, doxxing) may be eligible for immediate operator action per policy— everything else is designed to go through governance you can see.

For escalations outside the app, operators may publish a monitored contact (e.g. abuse@myynk.com — replace with your live inbox before public marketing). Appeals and heavy legal workflows may be manual in early phases.