6 · Your profile & privacy

Edit your profile

1. Profile → Edit profile.
2. Change your display name, bio, and avatar.

Go private

1. Settings → turn on Private account.
2. New followers now have to ask. Their requests wait in the Activity tab, under Requests — approve or decline each one there.

Who can see a post you share

Worth knowing before you paste a link into a group chat: Shiijak has a public front door. Anything you post from the app that isn't private can be read by someone who has no account at all, if they have the link.

1. Public posts and public profiles open for anyone. A link you share works for people who aren't members — they can read, but they can't reply, like or follow without joining.
2. Topics, Sections, the Newsstand and Explore are readable without an account too.
3. Everything of yours that matters — your feed, composing, messages, saved posts and settings — needs an account.
4. If you'd rather none of this applied to you, turn on Private account above.

Share Your 10

Ten things you'd vouch for, in each of eight categories — what you read, watch, listen to and love. It's a taste résumé, not a follow list.

1. Profile → Share Your 10.
2. Pick a category: Books, Magazines, Artists, Homes, Vacation Spots, Quotes, Movies, Games.
3. Add entries (each up to 200 characters, with an optional note), reorder them, and save.

Block someone

1. Open their profile → the ··· menu → Block.
2. Blocking is mutual and silent: you both vanish from each other's view, and they aren't told.
3. Muted accounts and muted words have review lists in Settings. Blocks don't — to unblock, go back to that person's profile.

Delete your account

1. Settings → Delete account (bottom, in red).
2. Read what goes and what stays. Posts, likes, reposts and your follow graph are removed; your username is retired for good.
3. Re-enter your password (skipped if you only ever signed in with Google or Apple).
4. Type your @username exactly to arm the button, then confirm.