Your Account

Difuzzion is a content platform built around its community. Unlike traditional platforms that rely on advertising, Difuzzion runs on its own digital currency called Stars (★). You can earn Stars by being active, receive them as tips from fans, or purchase them directly. Stars are used for everything — tipping creators, subscribing to channels, promoting your content, and more. This guide walks you through every aspect of your account so you can get the most out of the platform.

Welcome to Difuzzion

Difuzzion is a content platform built around its community. Unlike traditional platforms that rely on advertising, Difuzzion runs on its own digital currency called Stars (★). You can earn Stars by being active, receive them as tips from fans, or purchase them directly. Stars are used for everything — tipping creators, subscribing to channels, promoting your content, and more. This guide walks you through every aspect of your account so you can get the most out of the platform.

What makes Difuzzion fundamentally different from other platforms is its architecture. Content is delivered through a peer-to-peer network — your device shares and receives content directly from other users instead of from a central server. Your private messages are protected by end-to-end encryption, ensuring that not even the Difuzzion team can read them. There are no ads anywhere on the platform; the entire economy is powered by Stars. And through the gamification system, every action you take — uploading, commenting, following, sharing — contributes to your progression and unlocks new features over time.

Creating Your Account

To create an account, you'll first need an invitation code. This is a short code that someone on Difuzzion shares with you. Enter the code, then choose a unique username and a strong password (at least 8 characters). If you enter the wrong code or password multiple times, a short security challenge will appear — this is normal and protects the platform from bots.

During sign-up, your browser automatically creates a pair of encryption keys behind the scenes. These are used to protect your private messages. The important thing to know is that your private key is encrypted on your device before it's ever sent anywhere — Difuzzion never sees or stores your private key in a readable form. This is what makes your messages truly private.

At the very end of registration, you'll be shown a 12-word recovery phrase displayed in a grid. This is extremely important — write it down on paper and keep it in a safe place. If you ever forget your password, this phrase is the only way to recover your account. Difuzzion cannot reset your password for you without it.

Once registration is complete, you'll land directly on the Home feed. From this point you can start exploring content, following creators, and uploading your own material. Your gamification journey also starts immediately — mission tasks begin tracking your activity from the moment your account is created. We recommend visiting your Profile first to set a display name, avatar, and bio so that other users can find and recognise you.

Logging In

To log in, simply enter your username and password. That's it. If you make too many incorrect attempts in a row, a short security puzzle will appear — this is a safety measure that prevents anyone from trying to guess your password using automated tools. Once you solve it, you can continue trying to log in normally.

Difuzzion also keeps an eye out for your safety. Whenever you log in from a device you haven't used before, you'll receive an instant notification alerting you about it. This way, if someone else ever gains access to your account, you'll know right away and can take action — like changing your password through account recovery.

Your login session is maintained through a secure cookie. This means you'll stay logged in even if you close your browser and come back later, unless you explicitly log out. The cookie is set with strict security flags — it's marked as HttpOnly (so scripts can't read it), Secure (so it's only sent over HTTPS), and SameSite=Lax (to prevent cross-site request forgery). If you want to end your session, tap the Logout button in your dashboard — this will clear the cookie and disconnect your device from the P2P network.

Recovering Your Account

If you forget your password, don't panic. Go to the recovery page and enter the 12 recovery words you saved during sign-up, in the exact order they were given to you. Once verified, you'll be able to choose a new password (at least 8 characters). For security, if you enter the wrong words several times, you'll need to wait a little longer between each attempt — this prevents anyone from trying to brute-force their way into your account.

If you lose your recovery phrase, there is no way to recover your account. Difuzzion does not store your recovery words, does not have access to your email, and cannot verify your identity through any other channel. This is a deliberate design choice — it means that no one, not even the Difuzzion team, can take over or reset your account without your knowledge. The trade-off is that you are solely responsible for safeguarding your recovery phrase.

Behind the scenes, the recovery phrase is derived from a cryptographic seed that protects your private encryption key. When you reset your password using the phrase, your encrypted private key is re-encrypted with the new password so that your existing messages remain readable. This whole process happens on your device — your recovery phrase and private key are never transmitted in plaintext.

Invitations

Difuzzion is an invite-only platform, which helps maintain a trusted and respectful community. To sign up, you need a valid invitation code. Each code can only be used a limited number of times, so once it's been used up, it won't work for anyone else. If you're already on Difuzzion and want to invite friends, share your code with people you trust.

Invitation codes are generated by the Difuzzion team and may be distributed through official channels or given to existing users. Since every new member needs a code, the invitation system acts as a natural growth regulator — it keeps the community growing at a manageable pace and ensures that every new user has at least one connection to someone already on the platform. If a code you received no longer works, it simply means all of its available uses have been claimed.

PRO Mode

PRO is a premium monthly subscription that costs 1,000★. It gives you three major benefits:

• Pin up to 3 pieces of content — pinning guarantees that your content is always being shared by other users across the network, so it never goes offline even when you're away.
• Download content — after you've fully watched or listened to a piece of content, you can save it to your device.
• PRO badge — a visible badge appears on your profile showing you're a PRO supporter.

You can activate PRO at any time from your Wallet section. Your subscription will last for 30 days from the moment of activation. If you don't renew it, your PRO features will be deactivated and any pinned content will be automatically unpinned — though the content itself will still exist on the network as long as people are sharing it.

Here's a comparison of what's available on a free account versus PRO:

• Content pinning — Free: not available. PRO: pin up to 3 pieces of content with guaranteed 24/7 availability.
• Downloads — Free: not available. PRO: download any fully-played content to your device as .mp4, .mp3 or .png.
• Profile badge — Free: standard profile. PRO: a visible PRO badge on your channel.
• All other features — uploading, browsing, searching, following, commenting, liking, messaging, tipping, subscribing, promoting, and gamification — are identical on both free and PRO accounts.

Your Profile & Channel

Your profile is how other people see you on Difuzzion. You can customise it however you want — set a display name, write a bio that describes you or your content, add links to your other social accounts or website, and upload a custom avatar (profile picture) and banner (the wide image at the top of your channel page).

You also control the visibility of your channel:

• Public — anyone can see your content.
• Private — only approved followers can see it.
• Hidden — doesn't appear in search or recommendations at all.

When someone visits your channel, they'll see your content organised by type — separate tabs for videos, audio, images, and posts. Your profile also shows public statistics: your current level, follower count, and the total number of likes your content has received. If you're a PRO subscriber, a badge will appear next to your name. The recommended image sizes are 1500×500 pixels for the banner and 512×512 pixels for the avatar.

Settings

The Settings page lets you fine-tune your experience. Change your avatar or banner, switch the platform language (Difuzzion can detect your language automatically, but you can override it here), and — importantly — control your message privacy. You decide who can send you private messages:

• Everyone
• Only people you follow
• Only your subscribers
• Only your followers
• Block all incoming messages entirely

Settings also gives you access to your content moderation tools. You can create filters that automatically hide content containing specific words in titles, descriptions, keywords, or hashtags. This is useful if there are topics you'd rather not see in your feed. Additionally, you can enable the Force TURN option, which routes all your P2P connections through a relay server to hide your IP address — though this may reduce transfer speed compared to direct connections.

At the bottom of the Settings page is the Danger Zone. This is where you can permanently delete your account. Deletion is irreversible — it removes all your content, Stars balance, followers, subscriptions, messages, and gamification progress. You'll need to enter your current password to confirm. Once deleted, your username becomes available again and there is no way to recover anything associated with the account.

Security

Difuzzion takes your security seriously. Your account is protected with strong encryption — your private encryption key is stored in a way that only your own device can unlock it, meaning nobody (including Difuzzion) can access it. On top of that, security challenges protect sensitive actions like logging in and registering, making it extremely difficult for bots or attackers to target your account. We recommend using a strong, unique password and keeping your 12-word recovery phrase stored safely offline.

Here's how the platform protects you at a technical level:

• Password hashing — your password is never stored in plain text. It's hashed using a strong one-way algorithm before it's saved, so even if the database were somehow accessed, your actual password would remain unknown.
• End-to-end encryption — your private key for messaging is encrypted on your device using a key derived from your password. The server only ever stores the encrypted version.
• Proof-of-Work challenges — after multiple failed login or registration attempts, a computational puzzle must be solved before the next attempt. This makes brute-force attacks impractical.
• New-device alerts — you're notified instantly whenever a login occurs from a device you haven't used before.

To keep your account as safe as possible, we recommend following these best practices:

• Use a strong password that's at least 8 characters long and not reused from other sites.
• Write down your 12-word recovery phrase on paper and store it somewhere secure — never save it digitally.
• If you receive a new-device login notification and you don't recognise the device, change your password immediately using account recovery.
• If you're on a shared or public computer, always log out when you're done.

Following & Social

Following someone on Difuzzion is simple — just tap the Follow button on their profile. Their content will then appear in your feed. If the person has a private account, your follow won't go through immediately — instead, they'll receive a request and can choose to accept or decline it. You'll receive a notification whenever someone new starts following you, so you always know when your audience is growing.

You can view your full list of followers and the people you follow from your profile. Unfollowing someone is just as easy — tap the Follow button again on their profile to unfollow. When someone with a private account receives a follow request, they can review it from the Notifications area. Accepted requests will give the follower access to the private content; declined requests simply disappear. There's no limit to how many people you can follow or how many followers you can have.

Blocking & Filtering

You have full control over what you see on Difuzzion. You can block specific users so their content and profile are completely hidden from you. Beyond that, you can also set up content filters — block specific words that appear in titles or descriptions, filter out certain keywords or hashtags — so content you don't want to see never shows up in your feed. You can add or remove filters at any time from your settings.

Difuzzion offers four types of content filters:

• Description Word — hides content whose description contains this word.
• Title Word — hides content whose title contains this word.
• Keyword — hides content tagged with this keyword.
• Hashtag — hides content tagged with this hashtag.

Notifications

Difuzzion keeps you in the loop with real-time notifications. You'll be notified when:

• Someone follows you
• Someone likes your content
• Someone comments on your content or replies to your comment
• You level up, complete a mission or its tasks
• You unlock an achievement
• You receive a streak reminder
• You log in from a new device
• You have wallet activity (like receiving a tip)
• You get a report update or receive a warning

You can manage your notifications easily — mark them as read one at a time by tapping on them, or clear the entire list at once. Each notification includes a short description of what happened, so you can decide at a glance whether to take action or move on.

The Notifications area is also where you'll find two special sections: Follow Requests (if you have a private account, incoming requests appear here for you to accept or decline) and Support Chat (where you can open and manage support tickets). All notification types are grouped into "New" and "Recent" tabs so you can quickly identify what requires your attention.

Private Messages

Private messaging on Difuzzion is fully encrypted from end to end. When you send a message, it's scrambled on your device before it leaves, and only the recipient's device can unscramble it. This means your conversations stay between you and the other person — Difuzzion's servers only store the encrypted version, which is unreadable without the private keys that only exist on your devices.

Whether someone can message you depends on your message privacy setting (which you configured in Settings). You can allow messages from everyone, only from certain groups, or block them entirely. Keep in mind that encryption only protects direct messages — public interactions like comments, likes, and reposts are visible to others as normal.

Within a conversation, you have full control over your messages. You can delete individual messages, use the "Select All" option to bulk-select messages for deletion, or delete an entire chat at once. If someone is bothering you, you can block them directly from the chat — this will prevent them from sending further messages and also hide their content from your feeds. Note that if you log in on a new device, older messages may appear as "[Encrypted - Key Missing]" if the private key on the new device doesn't match — this is expected behaviour and a consequence of the encryption design.

Rules & Bans

Difuzzion enforces a set of rules to keep the platform safe for everyone. Accounts that violate these rules — such as uploading prohibited content, harassing other users, spamming, or any activity that undermines the integrity of the network — may be suspended or permanently deleted without prior notice.

If your account is suspended, you will lose access to all your content, Stars balance, social connections and any PRO subscription benefits. Account bans are irreversible — banned accounts cannot be recovered or appealed through the platform. We recommend reading the Terms and Conditions carefully to understand what is and isn't allowed.

Difuzzion reserves the right to act both proactively (through automated detection) and reactively (in response to user reports). Repeated or severe violations may result in an immediate permanent ban. Minor infractions may result in content removal with a warning before escalating to account-level action.

The enforcement approach is graduated: a first-time minor infraction will typically result in a warning and content removal; repeated minor infractions will escalate to temporary restrictions or a permanent ban; severe violations (such as CSAM, terrorism material, or malware distribution) result in an immediate permanent ban with no prior warning. If you believe content you uploaded was removed in error, you can open a support ticket to explain the situation — though the Difuzzion team's moderation decision is final.

Getting Help

If you ever run into a problem, have a question, or need to report something, head to the Notifications area, open the Support Chat section and open a new ticket. Describe your issue in as much detail as you can, and the Difuzzion team will respond. You can exchange messages back and forth until the problem is resolved. Once you're satisfied, you close the ticket yourself. Each time you open a new ticket, it starts a fresh conversation — previous tickets are not kept.

Support tickets are designed to be conversational — think of them as a live chat with the team. Provide as much context as possible when describing your issue: mention what you were doing, what you expected to happen, and what went wrong. If the issue involves specific content, include the title or a link. The Difuzzion team will respond as soon as possible, though response times may vary depending on volume. Once you close a ticket, all messages in that conversation are permanently deleted from the system.

Languages

Difuzzion supports multiple languages. When you first visit the platform, it tries to detect your preferred language automatically based on your browser settings. If it gets it wrong, you can change it manually in Settings at any time. If your selected language isn't available at all, the platform will fall back to English so everything still works.

The platform currently supports English and Spanish, with more languages planned. Language settings also affect which content appears in your feeds — the feed algorithm prioritises content that matches your language preferences, so you'll naturally see content in the languages you understand. You can set primary languages from your Settings to fine-tune this behaviour.