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 140 characters and contain a video, audio, image, or GIF. Stigmi uses GIPHY 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 phonebook - it is a list of everyone who is on Stigmi.

On Stigmi, you can post videos up to 15 MB and images up to 2 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 140 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!