Identity
You own it.
We can't reach it.
This site does not hold an account for you. It recognises an identity you already carry, and it has no way to take it back.
Every other site asks you to make an account it owns. This one asks you to bring an identity you own. The difference is not a slogan — it changes who can lock you out, who can sell you, and what happens when the company goes away.
Three things you already know
Your name. Your date of birth. Seven words you choose, at least thirty-two characters between them.
Those three things are put through a key derivation on your device and come out as a cryptographic key. The key never leaves. The words are never sent. There is no password field on any server here to breach, and nothing an attacker can request a reset of, because there is nothing to reset.
Type the same three things on a different device in five years and you get the same key. That is what it means to carry your identity in your head.
What that costs you, honestly
If you forget your seven words, nobody can help you. Not us, not Omxus, not a support ticket. That is the same trade every self-custodied thing makes, and it is the exact reason the rest of the internet does it the other way — a company that can let you back in is a company that can also be compelled to let someone else in.
So: write the words down. Put them where you keep things that matter.
Verified means people, not documents
Anyone can make an identity. Becoming verified takes three people who are already verified standing next to you — their phones confirm it in person over Bluetooth, and each one signs.
No passport upload. No selfie held next to a driver's licence. No third-party verification company holding a scan of your documents until it is breached. Just three people who can say they met you, in a way that can be checked afterwards and cannot be faked from a keyboard on the other side of the world.
On this site verified means you can publish under your own name — write for the journal, correct a page, put your name on a drawing standard somebody else will rely on. Unverified is enough to read everything, save the checklist and get the list.
The owner owns the same thing you do
This is the part that matters, and it is unusual enough to say plainly.
The person who runs this site signs in with the same kind of identity, derived the same way, with the same three inputs and the same rules. There is no admin tier with a master key over your account. No support console that can read your details. No "log in as user" button. The owner's identity has no more power over yours than yours has over the owner's.
Every platform you already use is built the other way round: the company holds the root, and you hold a tenancy. This one has no root to hold. That is not a policy anyone promises to keep — it is what the maths does, and a change of heart cannot undo it.
One identity, every site
Omxus is a standard OpenID Connect provider, so the same identity works on any site that uses it. Sign in here and you are signed in at the others without typing anything again. Sign in somewhere else first and this site already knows you.
And because the key is derived per site, none of them can compare notes. This site sees an identifier that is meaningless to any other. Cross-site tracking is not forbidden by a privacy policy — it is not possible.
Three things you remember make a key on your device. Three people who met you make it verified. Nobody, including us, can reset it, read it, sell it, or sign in as you.