Who can see what

Every piece of your DatsMe page carries its own setting for who can see it — anyone, your friends, or only you — and where two settings disagree, the narrower one wins.

There is no single privacy switch on DatsMe, and that is deliberate. Instead there is a ladder of separate controls: your whole account, each section of your page, each collection inside a section, and each item inside a collection. Every one of them can say public, friends, or private.

The rule that makes the ladder predictable is that the narrowest setting wins. A collection marked friends stays friends-only even when the section holding it is public. Setting something wider never overrides something narrower further down — which means you can open a whole section without worrying that you have accidentally exposed the one thing inside it you wanted kept back.

That has a consequence worth knowing before it puzzles you: making a section public may appear to do nothing. If a stranger still cannot see what is inside, something narrower is winning — usually the collection's own setting. See Visibility & privacy for where each badge lives.

An item is the one layer that can be left unset. An unset item simply follows whatever its collection says, so you only have to make a decision for the items you actually want to treat differently.

⚠️ One vocabulary difference will show up if you look closely. On a section, the most private level is displayed as Private and means only you. On a group site the word private means members only, because a group is owned collectively by the people in it — a member is a part-owner, not a visitor.