Bembo 
The platform works (or doesn’t, depending on how you see it) as usual. As per Ben’s suggestions, the Confessional was set up as a closed group to ensure safety; members have to be individually approved. For this reason, non-members do not see the notifications from its updates the way they see notifications from fully open projects. Almost all projects on Edgeryders are fully open.
I am not carving at all! Everything is written on water. It works like this: when I go running, my mind wanders. Recently, in Rome (I was running along the Appia Antica, on a road that must not have looked that different in the time of Emperor Hadrian) the three rules that had been floating in my head came together into a sort of structure. From then on, I have been poking holes in that structure, then plugging them. They already have one user: me. This version of protocol is, tentatively, how I myself want to live. Just like Benedict’s Rule, it is not always easy to conform.
For what it is worth, it sounds like the role of individual freedom in the discussion you mention could be downplayed a bit. The reason is this: the unMonastery does not have any cohercive power, so that there is no need to fear its cohercion (neither does the monastery). It’s a bit like being married: when you tie the knot, you assume certain duties and responsibilities towards your beloved – and yes, they do limit your personal freedom. But in the end, no one can make you be a good spouse if you don’t want to – and if you find them impossible to follow, you will divorce or run away. Both divorce and escape act are expensive, so you will likely ponder them before you execute them. In other words, those duties are there to protect you from occasional straying, not to straitjacket you into a life impossible for who you are: this would be not only cruel, but impossible.