A quiet public.

The plaza is the opposite of a social app. The content people publish is rough, half-remembered, often unflattering, and almost never written for an audience. Scrolling it for five minutes is a very strange calm. You are reading the things strangers saw while they were asleep, and their voices are unguarded in a way that a feed optimized for engagement would have already trained out of them. Every dream is also visualized, so you can browse by image when the words do not pull you in.

When you publish your first dream, you pick a member number. Low numbers are taken in order as people join. It is a small thing, but it gives the plaza the feel of a city with a history rather than a faceless platform. A member with a four-digit number is somebody who has been dreaming here for years. Your number is yours for as long as the account is yours, and it is how other readers recognize you next time you show up.

Every dream is private by default. When you want to share one, you tap publish, pick which persona it goes out under, and decide whether it is visible to the whole plaza or only to people who follow that persona. You can unpublish at any time and the dream goes back to being only yours. Nothing is ever accidentally public. Nothing is surfaced to strangers without a deliberate action from you.

Some dreams are clearly meant for a specific person. If a friend is going through something and you dreamed about them, you can gift that dream directly to them inside Epona instead of publishing it to the whole plaza. It shows up in their notifications as a small private delivery, just for them. It is not a DM, not a post; it is its own kind of object. You would be surprised how often this is the right form.

If somebody's dream life reads like yours, or reads nothing like yours in a way you want to keep learning from, you can follow the persona they publish under. Their next dream will show up at the top of your feed. Follows are per-persona, not per-real-user, which means you are following the part of that person you actually care about and nothing else. You can unfollow without it being a social event.

Any dream that makes you uncomfortable can be muted or reported in two taps. Any account you do not want to see from again can be blocked. The moderation is deliberately plain: the plaza is not trying to trap your attention, so there is no ranking algorithm to game and no engagement metric worth farming. The quiet of the place is the main feature, and it is on you and everyone else to keep the quiet.