Seeking alignment on product boundaries for an early-stage social platform
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This document does not describe a solution. It does not propose an implementation, a mechanism, or an optimization strategy for a social platform. It exists only to mark why this product is allowed to exist at all, and to state the conditions under which it must refuse continuation.

This product places its wager on a single premise: that a relationship can exist without being resolved. Not improved. Not clarified. Not escalated. No outcome is implied. It is permitted that two entities remain adjacent to the same thing, be altered by it, and yet owe each other no synthesis and no outcome. Meaning does not depend on closure, and coexistence does not require explanation.

Any system that assumes relationships are problems to be solved, processes to be optimized, or paths that must …

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