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copy: reposition marketing text around badge + pseudonym language
Replaces "anonymous-but-verified" framing across the README hero/tagline and the directory, requests, join, and settings blurbs with plain language about badges getting you in and a pseudonym being all anyone sees, while keeping the "no global identity ever exposed" claim exactly as strong as before.
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README.md

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# Deforum
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The badge-gated, anonymous-but-verified forum (deforum.space). A Reddit-shaped
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forum where each **sub-forum** is gated by Minister badges and independently
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configures how each role may interact with it. Users are anonymous-but-verified:
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a stable per-sub-forum pseudonym, no karma, no global identity ever exposed.
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The forum where a badge gets you in and a pseudonym is all anyone sees
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(deforum.space). A Reddit-shaped forum where every **sub-forum** is gated by
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Minister badges, provable facts about you (a verified email domain, a GitHub
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account with some history behind it), and each one sets its own rules for who
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reads, posts, and votes. You take part under a stable pseudonym, one per
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sub-forum, with no karma trailing you and no global identity ever exposed.
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The **foundation wave** shipped the scaffold, the `@ministryofmany/*` primitive
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wiring, the data model + migrations, and the identity / membership helpers. The

src/routes/directory/+page.svelte

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<header class="flex flex-col gap-1">
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<h1 class="text-2xl font-semibold tracking-tight text-ink">Sub-forums</h1>
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Badge-gated, anonymous-but-verified communities. Each sub-forum decides who reads, posts, and
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votes.
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Communities you get into by showing a badge, and take part in under a pseudonym. Each
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sub-forum decides who reads, posts, and votes.
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<div class="mt-4 rounded-[var(--radius-card)] border border-border bg-surface-2 p-3">
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<p class="text-sm font-medium text-ink">Back up your recovery phrase</p>
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<p class="mt-1 text-xs text-ink-muted">
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Your device seed is the only secret that can recover this membership. If you lose it, this
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identity is gone. Save your 24-word recovery phrase now.
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The secret on this device is the only thing that can bring this membership back. Lose it,
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and this identity is gone. Save your 24-word recovery phrase now.
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<Button variant="secondary" size="sm" href="/settings">Back up in Settings</Button>

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<section class="mx-auto max-w-2xl">
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<h1 class="mb-1 text-xl font-semibold tracking-tight text-ink">Request a forum</h1>
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Anyone who can prove a Minister badge may request a forum. Pick a name, choose which of your
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badges gate it, disclose them, and submit.
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Anyone who holds a Minister badge can request a forum. Pick a name, choose which of your
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badges will gate entry, show them, and submit.
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src/routes/settings/+page.svelte

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<h2 class="mb-1 text-sm font-semibold text-ink">Your device vault</h2>
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The device vault holds the recovery key for your anonymous forum identities. It is created and
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kept only on this device, and it is never sent to the server, so no one else, not even us, can
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The device vault holds the recovery key for the pseudonyms you use across your forums. It
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lives only on this device and is never sent to the server, so no one else, not even us, can
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see it. Back it up with the 24-word recovery phrase below.
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<p class="mb-3 text-xs text-ink-muted">
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Yes, you still need this even if you sign in with a Ministry account. Your anonymous posting
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identity is kept deliberately separate from your login, so it can only be recovered from this
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key.
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Yes, you still need this even if you sign in with a Ministry account. Your posting
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pseudonyms are kept deliberately separate from your login (that separation is the point), so
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this key is the only way to recover them.
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