MeowMeowBeenz is a social rating service. Every account on the network is assigned a number from 1 to 5, calculated continuously from the ratings their peers give them. It is built on the AT Protocol — your ratings live in your own repository on the network, and this site is just an appview that indexes them.

It is a working implementation of the social application introduced in Community, season 5, episode 8 ("App Development and Condiments," March 2014). The fictional version reached approximately full saturation inside a small Colorado community college in roughly 38 hours. Real-world results may vary.

Because the show invented a complete, functional, dystopian social product as a 22-minute parable and then never shipped it. Someone had to. The atproto network — an open, identity-portable, public-by-default substrate — turns out to be exactly the wrong place to do this, which is also exactly the right place to do this.

No. Community is a Sony / NBC / Yahoo property; MeowMeowBeenz the concept belongs to the show's writers; we built an unaffiliated client and appview around the idea, with appropriate reverence. Greendale is also fictional, but their human resources department is, by all accounts, exemplary.

Sign in with any atproto handle (a Bluesky handle works), and you'll appear on the network as Unrated. Your number begins to materialise the moment another user rates you. Until then, the cat is sad. (See: cat, sad.)

It's a weighted average of every rating you've received, where higher-tier raters carry more weight than lower-tier raters. This is a feature, not a bug — it is the exact mechanism that produced the show's stratified society inside a single afternoon.

Your number is recomputed continuously as new ratings land on the firehose. You may see it drift up or down in real time. This is normal. Don't take it personally.

• A True 5Royalty. Wears soft fabrics. Has earned the trust of other 5s, which is the only trust that compounds.
• Upper BeenzComfortable. Welcome at most parties. Statistically more likely to be invited into a 5's inner circle than to be ejected from it.
• Solid MidThe honourable middle. Largely undisturbed by the apparatus of the system. The largest cohort, by some margin.
• Lower BeenzThings have not gone well lately. There is still time. Avoid Britta.
• OutcastStay out of the wells. Form coalitions only with other 1s, and even then, expect betrayal.
• UnratedYou have not yet been rated. The cat is sad. So are you, briefly.

Because showing the underlying float ("you are a 4.31") would invite the kind of micro-optimisation the algorithm is meant to discourage, and because — frankly — it would make people sad. You see your tier; the math is happening; that's enough.

The algorithm is deterministic and the same for everyone. Whether that constitutes "fairness" is a question we cheerfully defer to the philosophers and the showrunners, both of whom were paid considerably more than we were to think about it. The relevant moral parable is approximately twenty-two minutes long, including credits.

This will be hard. Stay calm. The numbers move both ways, and many great people have, briefly, been 1s — including, on at least one documented occasion, Britta Perry. You can always be re-rated.

No. (You will be deeply tempted. We have all been deeply tempted.)

MeowMeowBeenz doesn't host your ratings. When you rate someone, we ask your Personal Data Server — the same one Bluesky uses, if that's where your account lives — to write a net.meowmeowbeenz.rating record. That record is yours: portable, public, and inspectable by any tool that knows the AT Protocol.

If you move PDSes, your ratings come with you. If you delete your account, they vanish from the network. Anyone can index the same firehose we do. This is the point of atproto.

You log in with your Bluesky handle (or any atproto handle) — same account, same identity. The OAuth scope we request is narrow on purpose: repo:net.meowmeowbeenz.rating?action=create&action=delete. We can create and delete rating records on your repository, and that is all. We can't read your DMs, post on your behalf, change your profile, follow anyone, or touch any other record type. The consent screen will tell you the same thing. If it asks for more, don't approve it.

Yes. Every rating on the network is a public record on its author's PDS. There is no anonymous mode. If a 4 docks you a point, you'll see who, when, and what they've thought of every other person they've rated. This is by design — the show's app worked the same way, and one of its lessons was that pseudonymity disguises rating behaviour at exactly the moment you most want it disguised.

Yes. Visit the profile, click Remove my rating. We call com.atproto.repo.deleteRecord on your PDS, the firehose announces the deletion, the ingester picks it up, the score recomputes. It's gone. We don't keep a tombstone copy.

Yes. Anyone with an atproto identity can publish a net.meowmeowbeenz.rating record about you, on their own PDS, whether or not you've ever signed in here. We can't stop them and we don't try; this site simply indexes what already exists on the network. This is also true of Bluesky likes, follows, and mentions, but it is more pointed in this context, and we want you to see it written down.

The original logo shipped with cats. We are not equipped to redesign it. The cat has five faces; each face is a tier; the unrated cat is sad. We did not invent the sad cat. We merely host it.

That is one of the cited risks. The system is operating as designed.

Within MeowMeowBeenz: yes, it determines the weight of your future ratings. Outside MeowMeowBeenz: no — but anyone else on the network can read your tier and decide what to do with it. A future feed generator might filter Bluesky posts to "5s only." That's allowed; the data is public. We don't run such a feed today. We can't promise no one will.

Then everyone is a 5, and the system equilibrates to a degenerate state in which the rating signal carries no information. This is, structurally, the best-case outcome and the show explored it briefly before reverting to type for narrative reasons. We encourage it. We expect it will not happen.

No.

Yes, and we encourage it. The lexicon is one record type — net.meowmeowbeenz.rating — with three fields: a subject DID, an integer 1–5, and a timestamp. Subscribe to the Bluesky jetstream filtered to that NSID and you have everything we have. Competing appviews are welcome. We are not the State.

It is intentionally tiny, and we expect it to stay tiny. Adding a "comment" field, a "context" field, or anything beyond (subject, value, time) would defeat the purpose: the original app had no comments, and the absence of comments is part of what made it work. You're either a 4 or you're not.