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Every note stops at 280 characters, and that ceiling decides most of the design. You write short notes, follow people and hashtags, reply, mention, and that is close to the whole feature list. There are two feeds and no more: hot, ranked by recent activity, and latest, in plain chronological order.

Pages arrive as server-rendered HTML with no client-side script in the markup, which is why the thing stays fast and quiet. Joining is free, profiles and notes are public, account data can be exported or deleted whenever you want, and nothing in the interface pushes you to grow an audience. A read-only public API needs neither key nor account and serves feeds, single posts, replies, profiles and hashtag timelines, with RSS and Atom versions plus a server-sent-event firehose of new posts. It runs on Bun with SQLite, and the source is AGPLv3, so anyone can host a copy.