Friends

Your own wall, like Facebook or Instagram, but between Iris houses and without a company in the middle. You post by talking to Iris: a thought, a photo from your holiday. Friends see it in their own Iris, like it and comment on it; you see theirs in your feed. Your wall is at https://<your house>.okayiris.com/wall, and everything on it stays in your own house.

What you can do

• Post text and photos, for your friends only or for everyone. Send Iris a photo and say "put this on my wall".
• Add friends: ask another house to be friends. Once they say yes you see each other's friends-only posts, and you can like and comment on them.
• Follow any wall: its public posts come into your feed, without being friends.
• Your feed: the newest posts of your friends and the walls you follow, with their photos.
• Likes and comments on your friends' posts, and theirs on yours; Iris tells you what is new.
• A profile: your name, a line about you and a profile photo.
• Block a house: no requests, follows, likes or comments from there any more.

The window

Three tabs: your feed (write a post, like, comment), your wall (your posts, who liked them and the comments) and friends (requests to accept, someone to add or follow, and who follows you).

Your wall on the internet

/wall on your house's address is open to everyone: your name, the line about you, and the posts you shared with everyone. Friends-only posts, who liked what, the comments and your list of friends never show there.

Say to Iris

• "Put this photo on my wall: a day at the beach."
• "Post for everyone: the shop is open again on Saturday."
• "Add anna as a friend." / "Follow bram's wall."
• "What did my friends post?"
• "Like Anna's photo." / "Tell Anna under her post that it looks lovely."
• "Who wants to be friends?" / "Accept Cor."

How it works

There is no central service. Every house keeps its own wall, and houses ask each other's wall directly. A friend request, an accept and a new follower are always checked with the house they claim to come from, by calling that house back at its own address, so nobody can pretend to be someone else. When you become friends, each house gives the other its own secret key; your friends-only posts, the photos in them, likes and comments are only given to a house that shows its key. Removing a friend or blocking a house takes the key away.

Photos are kept in your own house (JPEG, PNG, GIF or WebP, up to 4 MB; bigger ones are made smaller when the house can).

Settings

Under Integrations: your name, a line about you, who new posts are for (friends or everyone), whether others can ask to be friends, and this house's name (it fills itself in once someone opens your wall).

Permissions

internet: to reach your friends' walls and the walls you follow. files: to read a photo you want to post from the house's files.