Comms
A handful of bytes doesn't need a server. It needs a door — the light between two screens, the air between two phones, or the internet itself, straight through. All of it runs on the network the two of you already have.
Carry a stream of wordsThe doors
Light, a tap, sound, or the net. See the whole web and pick a door.
One screen plays a moving code, the other reads it back. No signal needed, nothing stored but the words.
Point a camera and send it phone to phone, live. You swap two short codes; nothing passes through a company.
Share your contact as a code, add a neighbour's, and call them direct.
A note, a link, a name, or a Wi-Fi key. Send it by light, a tap, or sound.
Ten phones as a camera system. Each records on its own; the hub keeps the low-res grid.
Paste what you're carrying — a jar card, a leaf, a signed page — and pick the rung that fits: paper, light, or a paste by hand.
The live hello — encrypted, phone to phone, the scan as your doorway. The union's say-hi.
The sound handshake is on its way — bytes through the air when the camera's blocked and the net's away.
How the doors hold
The rule of the hand. Every door is opened by a person — a screen held up, a code scanned, a paste passed phone to phone. No door calls out by itself, and none reroutes through a company's room. If a door won't open, it says so, and the next one is usually within reach.
Each fits a moment. Light carries a few sentences, steadily, anywhere.
Sound will carry a few bytes around corners. The net carries a live conversation, end to
end. The design record lives at communityservices.cc/COMMS.md.