The food map, the shops, the books, the neighborhood hello —
all of it works with no account. Signing in just gives you one name
from page to page, when you want it.
Signing in is never required.
It only means the effort you put in — a journal, a corner of a shop,
a neighborhood's hello — can be yours instead of anonymous.
And it stays honest: it proves you hold an account somewhere, not who
you are. That proof comes from signing in at a provider you choose,
not from a passport we invent.
Google sign-in is built and verified, but it wakes up when you give it
one public key (Google calls it a client id) — five minutes in
Google Cloud Console, recorded in
kernel/assets/mine/identity-config.js.
No secret is involved; the key is public by design.
Facebook and Apple need a server-held secret (they exchange through
our broker rail, issue #90), so they wait on being registered +
the broker being wired — both recorded in the identity spec.
@Verify a phone or an email
a short code arrives — we never hold a password anywhere
The code arrives by email or text depending on what you type.
It proves this inbox or phone is reachable — never who you are.
Good for about ten minutes. It signs nothing and claims
nothing about you — it is only the mailbox saying hello.
◆Sign in with your organization
type a work or school email — we propose, never pick for you
We read only the domain after the @ — one look at
its public records — and propose a route. It never signs you in or
sends you anywhere.
PJust a name on this device
no account, no proof, kept here only
A pen name signs nothing and follows nothing —
it stays in this browser, for the happy accident of a borrowed phone.