Structured participation, not engagement chaos.

No likes. No karma. No upvotes. No trending lists. No "top contributors". No notification dopamine. No infinite scroll.

Every one of those mechanics rewards intensity over substance. In a political and institutional context they don't produce better governance — they produce performance, factions, and burnout.

• Updates — the public institutional log of each initiative: governance changes, ownership shifts, milestones, conflicts, amendments.
• Discussion — chronological, reply-only, verification-gated. No sorting, no ranking.
• Questions — structured questions to organizers, with answers preserved as part of the public record.
• Direct messages — one supporter ↔ one organizer. No group chats, no bulk DMs, no broadcast.
• Public history — every governance change, reviewer decision, and appeal is archived and explorable.

Posting, asking, and contacting organizers all require identity verification. We trade frictionless anonymous posting for legible, accountable conversation.

Verification is for participation. It is not for surveillance, not for public display, and not shared with organizers.

Real organizing happens in many places — Signal, Discord, Matrix, union halls, mailing lists, kitchens. GROUNDWORK is institutional infrastructure, not a walled garden. Initiatives are encouraged to link out to where their day-to-day work actually lives.

No automated removals. Reviewers (level 3+) can hide comments and must record a reason. All moderation actions land on the public moderation log. Reviewer power is itself revocable, and revocation proposals are also public.

If you want to maximize visibility, accumulate followers, or run campaigns of influence, other platforms will serve you better. GROUNDWORK is built for the slow, durable work of building institutions that outlast their founders.