Roles: Publishers and Consumers

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

1. Publishers are visible

• Goal: maximize the reach and lasting influence of their information
• 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.