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Connections and Visibility in Clozeu

How connections differ from content audiences, and what to consider when sharing across Family, Group and Person Spaces.

Clozeu editorial team · 2 min read

Connections and visibility

Knowing someone does not mean sharing everything with them.

A cousin may also belong to your hiking group. A colleague may become a friend. Two families may be connected without wanting every photograph, conversation or gathering to have the same audience.

Clozeu separates these two ideas.

A connection describes a relationship between people or Spaces. Visibility determines who can see particular content.

Consider someone who belongs to both a Family Space and a hiking Group Space.

A Collection shared with the family has a different audience from a Collection shared with the hiking group. A person who belongs to both may be included in both audiences. That overlap does not turn everyone in the two Spaces into one shared audience.

Common situations

Someone joins your Family or Group. A new member may be able to see existing Collections shared with that Space. For example, joining a group may provide access to photographs from earlier gatherings, depending on how those Collections are shared.

You invite someone to an Event. A neighbour invited to a family birthday Event does not automatically gain access to the Family Space or its Collections. The invitation gives access to the occasion, rather than everything around it.

Two Spaces become connected. Connecting Spaces does not automatically share all their content. However, selected audience settings can include connected relationships. Check the audience chosen for the particular Collection or contribution.

Someone leaves a Family or Group. Access based on that membership ends. A separate invitation or another permission may still allow the person to see particular content.

You change who can see something. Changing the original audience does not recall an independently kept copy. Synchronised Collections have different behaviour and should not be treated as ordinary independent copies.

A Person Space also describes a context rather than a promise that everything inside it is visible only to one person. Some things may remain personal; others may be shared with an appropriate audience.

Before sharing, consider who is included now and how that audience could change as people join, leave or become connected.

Clozeu’s relationship structure helps organise sharing. The visibility rules determine its boundaries.

Being connected provides context. It should never require guessing who can see what.

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