Pre-commitment trust
The founder pre-commitment trust agreement described in 14 §9 binds the founding role to Tier-4 invariants, the cooperative asset-lock, and the rule that no single person can rewrite the institution for private control.
Founder statement
The founding role is bound, not elevated.
The Polis cooperative treats the founder as an accountable steward under cooperative control, public invariants, and a recallable Trustee Council.
Trustee Council recall
The Trustee Council is veto-only for Tier-4 protection. A Citizen Assembly may recall a trustee by 75% supermajority, and a veto can be overridden by the same public assembly threshold.
No personal brand
The page is not a biography, campaign, or personality channel. The relevant public facts are constraints: what power exists, how it is limited, where citizens can inspect it, and how the cooperative can remove it.
Brand promise
Social Media 2 helps people find serious, welcoming, real-world opportunities to meet people and rejoin local life.
Anti-promise
Social Media 2 will not sell attention, rank people publicly, run ads, sell data, create paid matching priority, or keep someone scrolling.
Statement
Social Media 2 is not built around a founder identity. The founding work is to create a durable civic institution that can outgrow its origin while preserving the promises that make it worth joining. The founding role therefore starts with constraints: no ad model, no public comparison economy, no paid priority in matching, no private sale of citizen data, and no unilateral path to alter Tier-4 invariants.
The pre-commitment trust makes that constraint enforceable. It gives the cooperative and its citizens a public record that the founder cannot treat the Polis cooperative as a personal asset, audience, or discretionary platform. The cooperative articles, SARB process, Citizen Assembly, and Trustee Council each exist so important changes require published reasoning, time, and collective consent.
The Trustee Council is intentionally narrow. It can veto Tier-4 violations, but it cannot make ordinary product, budget, or matching decisions alone. Trustees are recallable by Citizen Assembly supermajority. If a trustee veto is wrong, the assembly can override it by the same high threshold. That design protects the compact without making trustees sovereign.
Citizens should judge the founding role by whether it becomes less central over time. The work succeeds only if governance, evidence, and local practice make the institution legible without needing personal trust in one person.