Glob Social

Glob Social gives you a Home for connected ideas and a public world to explore. Make nodes, put more nodes inside them, connect related work, and decide what to share. The Nexus and available public nodes are readable before you sign in.

Start with What Glob Social is for the main ideas, or follow Getting started to explore, sign in and set up Home. Signed in, the Tutorial teaches the basics in two short lessons. Limits and availability explains access, permissions and the limits of each kind of content.

Home#

Home is the canvas inside your user root node, named with your username. Keep your own work there and place doors to public places you want to visit again. On a phone, the signed-in app opens to full-screen Feed; use Show canvas to reach Home. On a computer, the adaptive panel sits beside the canvas.

• Home and your root node: understand the centre node, depth rings, the route home and the door to the Nexus.
• Menus, the Home toolbar and the multibar: find the tools, people and creative workspaces, and read short canvas notices.
• Panels and windows: show, hide and resize the panel, use floating windows, and switch surfaces on a narrow screen.

Nodes#

A node holds words, a colour and an inside canvas. Its kind, your permissions and the place you are in determine which actions it offers.

• Nodes and the canvas: make, select, read, colour, resize and remove nodes with mouse, trackpad or touch.
• Node options: edit details and properties, review access, browse Linked nodes and save a node bookmark in Listr.
• Links and moving nodes: move arrangements, connect branches, use bridges and cut connections.
• Pins: place a reference to another node and travel through it without making an independent copy.
• Glob Time: see a node's history on a time axis, without changing its canvas.

Nexus#

The Nexus is the public canvas, linked from the front page. Explore its catalogue or search for readable public work, then keep a useful place on your canvas as a pin.

• The Nexus: browse topics and catalogue levels, and find the separate domain shelves.
• World map: open Map, explore its Pixl landscape and enter city nodes, including as a guest.
• Search and go: search public nodes and your work, use broader Search or Command+K, travel and pin results.
• Tags: add hashtags to nodes, open public results and follow a subject.
• Feed: read For you and Following, reveal new posts, open comments and save passages to Listr.

Sharing#

Public sharing and granting a visit are different ways to open work to other people. Read the confirmation before sharing a node that contains other work.

• Sharing a node: distinguish public sharing, friend access and private links; read the cost and result.
• Invitations and visits: choose a guest's visit permissions, create a link and manage visitors at home.
• Communities around a node: ask to join and understand the difference between reading, chatting and contributing.
• Managing a node's group: set admission rules, answer requests and appoint administrators.
• Councils and shared ownership: read seats and motions, propose eligible changes and vote.

People#

• Likes.

• Friends: add someone by username, answer requests and use the controls on a person's name.

• Identity marks and avatars: recognise the generated picture beside a name and understand avatar choices.

• Awards: read earned awards and choose which ones appear on your public profile.

• Blocking a person: stop contact, review the block's effects and find your blocked list.

Rooms#

Chat, walls and shouts serve different conversations. A shared node's rules determine who may participate, and a saved chat tab is separate from membership in the node's group.

• Chat and rooms: choose Global, Current room or another conversation, send a line and follow unread activity.
• Messages and group chats: start a direct message, choose who may contact you and manage a private group conversation.
• Pictures and reactions in chat: insert emoticons, post eligible Pixl drawings and react to a line.
• Keeping a chat line: make a node from a useful line and answer consent requests.
• Inbox and notifications: read updates, reopen messages and find Keep requests.
• Live rooms and presence: understand moving cursors, online indications, typing and canvas chat bubbles.
• Walls, posts and comments: write a wall discussion, reply, attach eligible work and vote.
• Shouts: send a short message nearby for credits and cancel during its countdown.

The Freemarket and credits#

• The Freemarket: browse listings, inspect purchase terms, use Wishlist and manage My Store.
• Credits: read the balances and confirmations used for sharing, AI and market actions.

Account#

• Settings: find appearance, notifications, profile, safety, usage and account controls.
• Keep, export and leaving: distinguish keeping a line, saving a public node, requesting account data, signing out and leaving Glob Social.
• Colli account guide: use the account shared with Glob and find its own sign-in and account controls.

Themes#

Themes explains Dark, Glob Classic and Light, how the browser remembers your choice, and the colour of your name in conversations. Accessibility covers focus, reduced motion and ways to use the canvas without dragging.

Safety and control#

• Community rules: find the current conduct rules and the available routes when something goes wrong.
• Reporting a problem: report content or a person and recognise a confirmed submission.
• Moderation and appeals: understand held content, posting pauses and the support route for reconsideration.
• Age and safety protections: check the age requirement and understand locked protective settings.
• Privacy and contact controls: choose named presence, online visibility, message access and outside-link warnings.
• Sending a copyright notice: use the separate form for a music copyright notice.
• Answering a copyright notice: read notices about your music and find counter-notice controls.

The Terms, Privacy Policy and Copyright page contain the current policy and legal wording.

Web pages on the canvas#

• Web nodes.
• Website views.
• Glob reader.
• Find on page.
• Notes and clips from a page.
• PDFs on the canvas.
• Discussing a web page.
• Sharing web references.
• Web page problems and limits.

Node tools#

These guides cover the individual tools and their controls. Listr keeps your notes, snippets and saved nodes across the adaptive panel's workspaces. Panels and windows explains the changing tabs; Limits and availability covers access and device differences.

• Listr and saved lists.
• Notes and checklists.
• Images and node pictures.
• Replay the last hour.
• The side panel.
• Node lookups and hashtags.

Creative workspaces and other applications#

• Glob Studio: the music-studio guide.
• Pixl: the drawing and animation guide.
• Glob Social for desktop: the desktop-application guide.
• Glob Social for Android: the Android-application guide.
• Glob for Web: the separate Glob web-application guide.

Help#

• Keyboard shortcuts: app combinations, canvas keys, menus and the canvas-chat exception for Enter.
• Accessibility: focus, keyboard operation, touch and reduced motion.
• Troubleshooting and getting help: sign-in and action messages, recovery controls, bug reports and support.

Contact [email protected] for product help and [email protected] for account or deletion questions.