Data type

A bud: one contribution to a story tree. Freshly written buds grow for 24h (not yet followable); after that they open as 'blooms' that other writers can extend; past 48h without children they lock into 'branches'. These lifecycle stages are views of the same record, not different record types. The AppView enforces a 500-word ceiling on `text` (counted via Unicode word segmentation); writes that exceed it are rejected as WordLimitExceeded.