2026-11-21 –, Cotton Theatre - Freedom Stage
The first surveillance most children meet is the parental-controls app: an account, a dossier, a dashboard. Safety and surveillance got bundled, and parents were told that was the only shape it came in.
It isn't. A rule can live on the device, signed by a parent's key, and answer to nobody else. Kindred is a family of apps built on that idea: screen time by agreement, consent-based location, messaging with no way in from outside, and pocket money on a shared ledger. No accounts, works offline, runs on Linux and de-Googled phones. In alpha now, full release by November.
20 minutes, slides.
- The problem: what a dashboard teaches a child about being watched.
- The stack: parent-held keys, rules signed and enforced on the device, no vendor cloud, and one verified-relationships primitive shared by every app.
- How the apps connect: screen time, location, messaging and pocket money as one family on one foundation.
- The brand: one flame, a different carrier per app, and why the iconography is the roadmap.
For parents, freedom-tech builders, and anyone interested in how surveillance gets normalised early.
Kindred.sofware and forgesworn.dev
As Decented I build open-source freedom tech at ForgeSworn, on Nostr, Lightning and plain cryptography.
As Morgs express my understand and ideas through art.