HELLO OUTSIDE is a public archive of anonymous transmissions addressed to what may exist beyond known reality.

The Archive does not claim that anything receives, understands or answers these transmissions. It preserves the act of addressing them.

A transmission is a text submitted through HELLO OUTSIDE and accepted under this Protocol. Once accepted, it receives:

• a sequential number;
• a network-generated timestamp;
• a place in the Archive.

The text is recorded in the form in which it was accepted. It is not corrected, rewritten or replaced.

No account is required to send a transmission.

No name, pseudonym, profile or public author identity is attached to it.

HELLO OUTSIDE does not create an author history or publicly connect multiple transmissions to the same person.

A transmission is preserved without preserving an author identity with it.

Anonymity applies to the Archive. It does not mean that every independent layer of the internet is technically incapable of observing network activity.

HELLO OUTSIDE runs on the Internet Computer.

Accepted transmissions are recorded in the persistent state of an Internet Computer canister.

The Archive is designed to preserve its state through compatible upgrades.

HELLO OUTSIDE does not claim absolute technical immutability. Its commitment is defined by this Protocol and by the way the system is designed to operate.

A transmission may contain up to 420 Unicode code points. All languages and supported Unicode characters may be used.

A transmission is rejected before recording when it:

• is empty;
• exceeds the length limit;
• contains a prohibited link or contact method;
• contains unsupported markup or characters;
• cannot be accepted because the Archive has reached its current capacity limit.

Rejected text does not become a transmission and does not receive a number.

These checks are mechanical. HELLO OUTSIDE does not interpret the meaning, truth, intention or emotional value of a transmission before recording it.

HELLO OUTSIDE accepts no more than ten transmissions within any rolling period of sixty seconds across the entire Archive.

This limit protects the service from saturation. It does not identify individual senders or reserve capacity for particular visitors.

When a transmission is accepted, its number is assigned sequentially.

Its timestamp is generated by the system and displayed in the America/New York time zone.

The accepted text, number and timestamp become the recorded transmission.

The sender cannot edit or withdraw it through HELLO OUTSIDE after recording.

Once recorded, a transmission remains part of the Archive.

Its original text, number, timestamp and place in the sequence are not ordinarily edited, replaced or removed.

HELLO OUTSIDE provides no ordinary deletion mechanism for recorded transmissions.

Public access may later be restricted under this Protocol.

Restriction does not rewrite, erase or revoke the transmission.

It changes only whether its contents remain readable by the public.

A recorded transmission may become unreadable to humans, but it never becomes unwritten.

Human access may be withdrawn.

The transmission remains recorded.

Recorded transmissions are public by default.

They may be accessed through:

• the Archive;
• their individual transmission page;
• the Constellation;
• Archive search and direct number navigation.

The Archive presents transmissions in reverse chronological order.

The Constellation presents a changing selection of recorded transmissions as simultaneous points rather than as a chronological sequence.

Public access does not transfer ownership of a transmission to its readers or make HELLO OUTSIDE responsible for its claims.

A publicly visible transmission may receive a LIKE or DISLIKE reaction.

No reaction is required.

Reaction totals are hidden from a visitor until that visitor reacts to the transmission.

A reaction may then be changed or canceled.

Reactions express the responses of visitors.

They do not determine whether a transmission is true, valuable, acceptable or successfully addressed.

They do not alter the text, number, timestamp, position or preservation of a transmission.

Reactions are unavailable while the public visibility of a transmission is restricted.

Public access to a transmission may be restricted only under the conditions defined by this Protocol.

When visibility is restricted:

• the original text remains stored;
• the transmission keeps its number and timestamp;
• its place in the Archive remains visible;
• its individual URL remains valid;
• its point remains present in the Constellation;
• its text is excluded from public search;
• its contents are not returned through public methods;
• reactions are hidden and temporarily unavailable;
• the public reason for the restriction is displayed.

A restricted transmission remains addressed beyond known reality, even when it is no longer readable by the public.

The public record remains.

Its contents do not.

Public visibility may be restricted when a transmission clearly contains one or more of the following.

An expression of personal distress, including a person describing their own suicidal thoughts, is not by itself encouragement of suicide.

Disagreement, criticism, profanity, disturbing ideas, offensive opinions and expressions of personal distress are not sufficient grounds for restriction by themselves.

An authorized administrator may restrict or restore public visibility.

The administrator acts as a guardian of public access, not as an editor of the Archive.

The administrator may:

• locate a transmission by number;
• review its original contents;
• view its current status;
• select an authorized reason for restriction;
• restrict public visibility;
• restore public visibility;
• add an internal administrative note;
• review the internal history of previous actions.

The administrator cannot ordinarily:

• edit the text;
• correct the text;
• replace the text;
• change the transmission number;
• change the timestamp;
• alter its place in the sequence;
• modify reaction totals;
• delete a transmission through the administration interface.

Administrative authority is verified by the backend.

Access to a hidden route or interface does not grant authority.

A restriction takes effect immediately after an authorized administrator confirms the action and selects a valid reason.

A restoration also takes effect immediately after confirmation.

Each action creates a persistent internal record containing:

• the transmission number;
• the action performed;
• the reason, when applicable;
• the time of the action;
• the authorized administrator;
• any optional internal note.

This history is available only through the administration interface.

The public sees the current visibility status and the public reason for restriction, not the internal history or notes.

Restoring visibility does not erase the record of the earlier restriction.

In the Archive, a restricted transmission appears in a compact form showing:

• its number;
• its timestamp;
• the restricted status;
• the public reason.

On its individual page and in the Constellation panel, the site also explains that the transmission remains recorded while public access to its contents has been restricted.

No excerpt of the original text is included in public metadata or sharing previews while the restriction is active.

No sharing controls or community reactions are displayed while the restriction is active.

Restricted transmission pages may be excluded from search-engine indexing until their visibility is restored.

An authorized administrator may restore public visibility when the restriction is no longer justified or was applied incorrectly.

Restoration reveals the original recorded text exactly as it existed before restriction.

The transmission is not recreated, renumbered or republished.

Its original identity in the Archive never changes.

Previously recorded reactions remain preserved and may become available again.

The sender is responsible for the contents of a transmission.

Recording a transmission does not mean that HELLO OUTSIDE endorses, verifies or agrees with it.

Readers may encounter content that is personal, unsettling, offensive, inaccurate or difficult to interpret.

The Archive preserves human expression within the limits of this Protocol.

It does not certify that expression.

HELLO OUTSIDE does not claim to communicate with another dimension, consciousness, entity or reality.

It does not claim that a transmission reaches a destination.

It does not promise observation, understanding, contact or reply.

The transmission is recorded because it was addressed.

Nothing more is claimed.

Restriction of public visibility is the normal response to a recorded transmission that violates this Protocol.

HELLO OUTSIDE is designed to preserve the original transmission even when human access is withdrawn.

Where a binding legal obligation makes another action unavoidable, that obligation may take precedence over the ordinary operation of the Archive.

Such an exception does not create a general deletion right or an ordinary removal mechanism.

This Protocol governs:

• acceptance
• recording
• anonymity
• preservation
• public access
• reactions
• visibility restrictions
• administration
• restoration

It does not define what exists beyond known reality.

It defines only how HELLO OUTSIDE receives and preserves what is addressed there.

The sender is not recorded.

The transmission is.

Human access may be withdrawn.

The transmission remains.