Your content is in your own database

Everything you write on DatsMe lives in a database file that belongs to your account alone, not in one large table shared with every other member.

Most social products keep what everyone writes in a single company-owned database and give each person a profile inside it. DatsMe is built the other way round. Every member is a separate node with their own database file, holding the content they created.

The platform's own database holds the things that are genuinely between people — who knows whom, who reacted to what — and the indexes needed to route a request to the right place. It does not hold your content.

This is not a detail of storage; it is what makes the rest of the product's claims possible rather than merely promised. When something is shared, exactly one person owns it and everyone else holds a reference to it. That is why deleting something removes it everywhere it appeared, instead of leaving copies behind in other people's feeds.

It is also the reason your settings behave the way they do. Who can see what decides who may read from your database; it is a gate on your content, not a filter over a common pool.