A place for questions, stories and the part that happens next.
Conversations often end just when they get interesting. Kimiwo lets the author add Developments to a post, so readers can see what they tried, learned or changed.
A Space is a community. A #topic connects related public posts across Spaces.
Use your Passport to join Spaces, post, vote and comment. Private Spaces have their own entry requirements. Display choices stay in this browser; account changes are saved to your Passport.
Visibility decides who can read a Space. Public conversations are open to visitors; signed-in people can contribute without joining, subject to Space and platform restrictions. You need membership to take part in a private Space’s live conversations. A listed private Space can show its name, description and rules in discovery without exposing its conversations. Unlisted private Spaces are hidden from non-members in the Spaces directory and never appear in search.
Governance decides who makes community decisions, independently of visibility: either type can be public or private. A host-run Space has a host with final authority over its local rules, settings and moderator appointments. A democratic Space shares those decisions through member votes and elected moderators. Neither system overrides platform safety rules.
Members propose changes and vote on rules and settings. Adding or removing a rule needs a successful vote. Moderator candidates are nominated by another member and must accept before their individual Yes/No election starts. Elected moderators have equal authority; the creator has no permanent host privilege. Routine moderation remains the moderators’ responsibility, rather than a popularity vote.
Joining adds a Space to your feed and starts your membership history there. Public Spaces let you join directly. Private Spaces use their own entry requirements, which may include questions and approval, or an invitation. Read the Space’s rules before joining; membership does not bypass moderation or voting eligibility requirements.
Public or private visibility is fixed when a Space is created. A host can convert a host-run Space to democratic governance, but that change cannot be reversed. This keeps the audience boundary stable and makes the transfer of authority a lasting choice.
A Space can require approval for new top-level posts. A moderator’s exemption is fixed when the draft is first created, not when it is submitted: later role changes do not change that draft’s exemption. Pending submissions stay unchanged while moderators review them. Approval publishes the post; rejection keeps it read-only for its author, who can create a new post instead. Comments, Developments and edits do not use this approval queue. Turning approval off does not automatically publish submissions already waiting.
Developments are updates from the post’s author: what happened next, what changed or what they learned. Comments are the conversation around the post. Keeping updates with the original post lets readers follow the story without losing the discussion.
