The Silent Hours Protocol
A social standard for two notification-free hours a day.
POSTED BY @liv · V2 · UPDATED 5 DAYS AGO
The Vision
Not an app. A protocol. Two agreed civic hours a day - say 9 to 10 and 21 to 22 - where every participating service queues notifications by default. Individuals opt out, not in. Like quiet hours in an apartment building, but for the attention economy.
Main Features
- 01OPEN REGISTRY OF PARTICIPATING APPS AND SERVICES
- 02ONE API FLAG: DELIVER-AFTER TIMESTAMP ON PUSH PAYLOADS
- 03CIVIC QUIET WINDOWS AGREED PER CITY, LIKE MARKET HOURS
- 04ANNUAL 'LOUDEST APP' TRANSPARENCY REPORT⟡ AI-assisted
The Long Story
Every previous commons - air, water, night - needed a norm before it needed a law. Attention is a commons and it currently has neither.
The Silent Hours Protocol is a voluntary standard any platform can implement in a weekend: a shared calendar of quiet windows, an API flag, and a public registry of participating services. The point isn't digital detox moralism. The point is coordination: silence is only valuable when everyone has it at the same time, because that's when nobody is missing anything.
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