Communities are 📝MythOS's knowledge-sharing layer — structured spaces where creators contribute memos from their libraries into shared, curated feeds. The model parodies Reddit's community structure but diverges in a key way: content originates in creator libraries, not natively in communities. A memo is contributed to a community, creating an immutable snapshot at submission time. The original stays in the creator's library. This means communities are curated collections of existing work, not content silos.

Features

Community Creation

Only Scholar and Oracle tier members can create communities. Each community requires:

Title — display name (e.g., "Agentic Augmentation")
Slug — URL identifier, auto-generated from title, manually editable. Lowercase alphanumeric + hyphens, 3-50 chars. Determines the URL at /we/{slug}
Description — what the community is about
Tags — categorization labels (e.g., technology, philosophy, writing)
Visibility — public (anyone can discover and join), private, or invite-only
NSFW toggle — content warning flag
Co-Stewards — searchable user selector to add co-stewards at creation time
Guidelines — toggleable set of platform-default guidelines (e.g., "Be respectful and constructive", "Cite sources when possible")

Free and Scribe tier users see a disabled "Create Community" button with an upgrade prompt.

Roles & Permissions

Communities have a four-tier role hierarchy:

Creator — full control. Can edit settings, manage stewards, moderate posts, delete the community. One per community
Steward — can edit settings, moderate posts, manage members. Assigned at creation or added later via the Stewards tab
Moderator — can approve/reject pending posts and manage members. Promoted from member by creator
Member — can submit memos, vote, and comment. Joins by clicking "Join" on public communities

Creator and stewards are automatically added as moderators. The Stewards tab on the community detail page allows the creator to add/remove stewards post-creation.

Contributing Memos

Any member can submit a memo they own to a community via the Contribute button on the memo detail page, or the Submit Memo button on the community page. The contribute modal shows all communities (not just joined ones), with joined communities sorted to the top.

When a memo is submitted:

An immutable snapshot is created — title, snippet, content, tags, and author info frozen at submission time
If the submitter is a creator/steward/moderator, the post is auto-approved
Otherwise, the post enters a pending state for moderation
Public memos can only go to public communities
A memo can only be submitted once per community

Voting & Scoring

Members can upvote or downvote community posts. Voting is toggle-based — clicking the same vote again removes it, clicking the opposite flips it. Posts have a score calculated from upvotes minus downvotes.

The feed supports three sort modes:

Hot — score decayed over time: score / (ageHours + 2)^1.5
New — most recent first
Top — highest score, filterable by time range (24h, week, month, year, all time)

Comments

Posts support threaded comments up to 10 levels deep. Comments can also be upvoted/downvoted with the same toggle mechanics as post voting. Comment authors see their own name, avatar, and timestamp.

Moderation

Stewards and moderators access the moderation queue at /we/{slug}/moderate, which shows:

Pending Posts tab — approve or reject submitted memos
Members tab — view members with roles, promote to moderator, or remove from community

Community Pages

/community — the main feed page (linked in sidebar). Shows posts from joined communities with hot/new/top sorting. Right sidebar lists communities with Browse/Manage tabs and a Create Community button
/community/browse — full gallery page with infinite scroll, search, tag filters, and NSFW toggle
/we/{slug} — community detail page with three tabs: Memos (post feed with voting), Guidelines (platform defaults + custom rules), and Stewards (creator + co-stewards with add/remove)
/we/{slug}/settings — community settings (name, description, rules, tags, visibility, NSFW, guidelines). Includes a Danger Zone for the creator to permanently delete the community
/we/{slug}/moderate — moderation queue for pending posts and member management

📝Memo Forking

Any community post can be forked — creating a copy in the viewer's library that they can edit independently. Fork count is tracked and displayed on posts.

Guidelines System

Communities use a platform-wide set of default guidelines managed by admins. When creating a community, defaults are pre-selected and can be toggled on/off. The current defaults:

Be respectful and constructive
No spam or self-promotion without context
Cite sources when possible
Stay on topic
No harassment or hate speech
NSFW content must be tagged appropriately
No doxxing or sharing personal information
Respect intellectual property

Community creators can also add custom rules via the settings page, which display alongside guidelines in the Guidelines tab.

Initial Communities

The first ten communities, created to establish naming conventions and cultural tone: