Stigmi is a small microblogging service made in tribute of Twitter from the early 2010s. Posts around here are called Stigs, like posts on Twitter are Tweets. To repost a Stig is to Restig. Restigging just adds an attribute to the Stig. There are no algorithmical timelines here - it's reverse-chronological.

After creating your account, navigate your profile from the top menu bar and click edit profile. There, you can set an avatar, a bio, your location, and up to 5 URL links.

That location can be anything - it's just a text box, and it is used to prefill the "Where are you?" input when making a Stig.

The Stig composer appears at the top of your home timeline and at the top of your own profile. Stigs can be up to 350 characters and contain a video, audio, image, or GIF. Stigmi uses Tenor for the GIF browser. If you haven't specified a location on your profile, you can add your own. Or... you can still add your own anyway.

After you send your Stig, anyone who is following you will see it in their timeline. They can reply, Restig, or favorite your Stig.

Stigmi is entirely driven by following those you know. If you don't follow anyone, you won't see anything. If you don't know who to follow, check out the directory - it is a list of everyone who is on Stigmi.

On Stigmi, you can post an image, a video, or audio, up to 50 MB. You can drag-and-drop these files into the Stig composer, or click "Attach a file..." directly. You can caption this media with regular text, up to 350 characters, of course.

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Head on over to account settings to export your data, change who can see your Stigs (logged out or not), purge Stigs, and delete your account.

Stigmi doesn't ask for your location - it is entirely a convenience feature that can contain anything. The data you supply for that field appears on your profile and is prefilled when composing a Stig.

By default, anyone can see your profile and your Stigs. You can make it so only logged in users or followers can read your Stigs, but your basic profile information (bio, name, avatar, links & location) is always public.

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!

Stigmi's PWA, found at /pwa, is a more modern interface than the main UI. Preemptively: it is not (becoming) the default interface, but I am working on a way to make it your default interface, not the default interface instead of having to always visit /pwa.

Obviously it is modeled extremely close to the Twitter web app. It was added after the Stigmi API v0 went up, and is a React app written in TypeScript, hosted on the same server.

To concisely summarise: it is akin to how Reddit has a modern Reddit.com but retains old.reddit.com. But vice versa, the modern is secondary.