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How many people sat with Synchronized Presence on Sunday 27 September?
None, by the rule we count with: ten phones joined the 19:30 Sit and every one of them was the founder's or a test account. The week's honest accounting, and what changed in the app.
Last updated · 28 September 2026
None.
Ten phones joined the Sit at half past seven on Sunday, and four of them were open when the bell rang. Every one of the ten was the founder’s own or a test account, and the rule for this number is that those do not count. Last week the number was one. This week it is zero, and we publish it because the rule is the point, not the figure.
Inside the app the count reads differently, and honestly so: the room’s own card in Voices says how many phones sat together, and it counts everyone present, ours included. Here we count people who are not us. Both are true. This is the smaller one.
What changed this week is not the number but the door. Until Thursday nobody who joined a Sit was ever reminded, because of a fault on our side, and the button to join was a tab away. Now a reminder comes half an hour before and again at the start, only to people who joined, and “Join the Sit” is on the first screen. There is a switch for every day at half seven. A bell opens and closes the Sit. And on Sunday morning, for the first time since those doors existed, someone new arrived on their own.
Sundays at half seven, we sit together. Come.
Written with an AI writing tool and read by a person before it appeared here. Synchronized Presence is a community, not a publisher: the sit is the point, the reading is optional.
Sundays at half seven, we sit together. Come.