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Everything here is the short version of pages that exist elsewhere on this site. When an answer points at a policy, the policy is the authority.
An adults-only chat and community site built around identity verification. Anyone 18 or older can join free under a handle, and every new member passes an ID and selfie check with an independent provider before coming in. Inside are halls, private chats and circles, creator salons, and a reading room that publishes fiction to the open web.
Yes, from outside. The Town Square and the reading room are public, so anyone can read them without an account. Inside, everything waits for the check: until Didit has approved your ID and selfie, a new account reaches its own settings and support, and nothing else.
Everything. Every hall, starting with the Grand Hall, which the check seats you in. Private chats and circles, member profiles, discovery, friends, and search. Posting photos and video, your own portrait and calling card, starting circles and halls of your own, and following a salon free. A verified member also wears a mark that other members can see on posts and in chats.
Pick a handle and a password. No email is required, and you can add one later in Settings for account recovery. Then Didit, an independent provider, checks your ID and a live selfie, which takes about two minutes with your phone's camera. Once it passes, you're in, under the handle you already picked.
Didit, an independent verification provider, checks your document and selfie and keeps them. Masque keeps a limited result and a provider reference. Members only ever see your handle and mask, never your name, your face, or your documents.
Joining is free, and so is the ID check and every part of the community it opens: the halls, private chats, circles, and following a salon. What can cost money is what a creator chooses to sell, such as a paid salon tier or a priced photo or video. A salon tier costs exactly the creator's price. A priced photo or video adds a service and processing fee, and every total is shown before you buy. Masque never charges for membership or for conversation.
Adult nudity and consensual adult sexuality are welcome. Never anyone under 18, no gore, and nothing the Community and Content Rules ban. Every member agreed to the same short rules at the door, and the rules are public.
From any post, profile, or message inside the app. There is also a public report form at /safety/report that needs no account, and intimate-image removal has its own accountless door at /legal/takedown.
For verified members, blocks and bans attach to the verified identity behind the account rather than to an email address, so a fresh inbox does not mint a fresh verified member; re-entry costs a new verified identity. And every new account passes the ID check before it can reach anyone, so a fresh handle does not get a banned person back in.
Yes, from Settings, at any time. Deletion runs on the Privacy Policy's schedule, and that policy also lists the limited records that can remain afterward.
Halls are shared forums with posts, votes, comments, and their own moderators; the Town Square is the one hall anyone can read, no account needed. Circles are private group chats you are invited into. Salons are creator-run rooms: a verified member follows one free, and a creator can also set a price on a tier. The reading room publishes member fiction to the open web with no account needed.
The Town Square, the reading room, and pages like this one. Everything else is members-only and stays off the open web, which is most of the point.
The story says why Masque exists. Why Masque carries the record with its sources. Safety covers reporting in detail, and every policy is published in full under Legal in the footer.
Looking for something specific? There are longer pages on anonymous chat with verified adults, what safer adult chat actually means, private chat rooms, Masque as an adult social network, pseudonymity, and on moving over from Reddit, Telegram, or Snapchat. The Town Square is the one room you can read before joining.