¶ Quantum Rooms
A Quantum Room™ is a private, ephemeral space shared exclusively between users who possess a common Social Encryption key. Quantum Rooms are never explicitly created, and users are never invited to join them. A room comes into existence only when at least one user with the corresponding SE key enters it, and ceases to exist once its content is deleted.
This makes Quantum Rooms both temporal and ephemeral. 90 seconds after the last user leaves, all SE encrypted content is permanently deleted and the room is gone. Content management is minimal. Any participant can delete individual messages, but there are no message expiration rules to configure and no authorization process to manage. Users who do not possess a given SE key have no way of knowing whether any Quantum Rooms exist on the server at all.
¶ Keeping Content Alive
Content in a Quantum Room can be prevented from auto-deletion by having at least one user remain in the room. As long as one person stays, the content persists indefinitely. This gives users direct control over when content expires, simply by choosing when to leave.
Mobile users: Locking your screen counts as leaving the Quantum Room. If you are the last user in a room, locking your screen will trigger the 90 second deletion countdown.
¶ SE Keys and Room Access
A Quantum Room is only accessible to users who possess its corresponding SE key. Users with the same SE key can return to the same room at any time without any server side configuration. Deleting an SE key makes the previously accessible Quantum Room permanently inaccessible.
¶ Empty Servers
Because Quantum Rooms are invisible to users without the relevant SE key, it is possible to run a server with no channels or rooms at all. On an empty server, only users with SE keys will see the Quantum Rooms available to them, and no other structure is visible to anyone else.
