Kibicara hoods are community-administrated instances of Kibicara. A hood can be imagined as a box that takes messages from different messaging platforms and distributes it to other messaging platforms.
You as a hood user can join a hood by searching for its public hood page. There you will find the information on how to subscribe to this hood from your favourite platform. Additionally the public hood page provides information on how to send broadcast messages to the hood.
Kibicara hoods are thought to represent a community that exists in real life. This means for example a neighborhood community that wants to use technology to communicate but has people who only can use specific technology and don't want to be excluded (e.g. people who only have email).
A public hood page provides you with the information about your hood. This includes how to join, receive messages and send messages. Usually you receive a link to the hood page of your community, but you can also use the search to find your hood page.
A hood admin is a person from your community who configures your Kibicara hood for you to use. They give you a proper introduction and usually send you the link to your hood page. They take care of the social networking and the technology to use.
If your community already has a hood, you can search for its name. If your community does not have a hood and you want to create a hood, check out the page for hood admins.
Check out the page for hood admins.
No, your messages are not generally sent anonymously. Depending on the platform you use, you can get away with being pseudonymous. We don't send your user name, but the terms of the platform you use to send the message still applies.
Also: Everyone on the Internet can read the content of your messages. We disadvice to send sensitive data since everyone on the Internet can read it. The use case of hoods is broadcasting public messages!
The Kibicara server does save different information depending on the use. If you are a normal user:
We don't save any messages sent. Still every of your message will be broadcasted to different platforms, so these platforms of course save the content of your message. We disadvice to send sensitive data since everyone on the Internet can read it. The use case of hoods is broadcasting public messages.
For hood admins: