Stigmi

Stigmi (modern Greek for moment / στιγμή) is a small service for sharing posts - dubbed "Stigs" - of up to 140 characters - and media to your friends. It's not algorithmical: you only see Stigs from those you follow. Stigmi is basically a tribute to Twitter in the late 2000s (like 2008 and 2009) or the early 2010s.

Stigmi is just a concept so far and could vanish at any time.

features

• Stigs can contain 140 characters, images, videos, audio, and GIFs
• To repost a Stig is to Restig: Restigging simply adds an attribute and makes it show on your profile
• Reply to Stigs
• Put up to 5 links, a location, an avatar and a bio in your profile
• A phonebook / list of all users
• A notifications system

technical features

• Media metadata stripping, i.e. EXIF data or ID3 tags
• Built in TypeScript for core logic, JavaScript for browser behavior, EJS for templating, with auxiliary tooling in Gleam, Scala and Rust
• Uses a simple sqlite database locally which means your data can be immediately wiped
• Immediate and complete account deletion
• Media is also hosted locally
• Account creations are screened by reCAPTCHA
• You can adjust who can see your favorited Stigs, your own Stigs, or your profile: logged out users, followers only, and everything in between
• Immediate data exportation in JSON format

why?

Unfortunately, Twitter no longer exists as Twitter, and even before that, the original ethos of "just sharing whats up" had been long abandoned. Bluesky is honestly not the same (not in a bad way, but it seems to move ten times faster than Twitter did + absolutely everything is fully open come-hell-or-high-water), and Mastodon is pretty quiet (from my experience). Threads is a terrible cancerous Meta service... so what else? Stigmi. Stigmi, at the moment and hopefully forevermore, is a small, quiet, chronological, text-first, intimate website all about just sharing what's happening