Roles: Publishers and Consumers

ParaDigi Universe splits the traditional idea of a “user” into two independent roles.

1. Publishers are visible

• Goal: maximize influence, understood as a balance between duration and the population affected
• Mechanism: every post, reply, repost, like, and block extends one signed message history
• Identity: a publisher is the ordered history itself, not a platform-issued account

2. Consumers are invisible

• Goal: acquire relevant information efficiently
• Mechanism: use local filtering rules based on trust and interaction relationships between publishers
• Visible identity set: these private rules determine which publishers become visible in the consumer’s own universe

A single person may operate several publisher identities while using one or more separate consumer rule sets. The protocol does not require them to be linked.

Publisher actions are still constrained by the consumer view behind them: a publisher can only interact with information visible to the corresponding consumer role. Once an interaction is published, however, it becomes a public, traceable event that others can judge.

At the system level, the goal is not to maximize any particular publisher’s influence or to issue a collective judgment about information quality. The goal is normal information flow: information should spread where it is needed and accepted, while spam should interfere as little as possible with effective acquisition.