User devices

Primary device

• Every user on Comm has a primary device
• Your primary device owns your private keys and personal data
• Your other devices all "proxy" through your primary device

Keyservers

• A keyserver is a primary device that can also host communities
• You can use our desktop app on your laptop (macOS or Windows) to host a keyserver, or you can host a keyserver as a Linux service
• Comm is not able to control who has access to the data on a keyserver
• Multiple users can share the same keyserver

Core Concepts

Communities

• Communities in Comm are like servers in Discord
• Each community is hosted on a specific user's keyserver
• Users in Comm can be a member of any number of communities
• You don't need a keyserver to join a community, but you do need one to host a community

Chats

• There are two distinct kinds of chats in Comm:
• Because they are hosted on a keyserver, channels are more full-featured than DMs

Threads