Life & fun · December 12, 2025
Jottings; Anti-social microblog for your thoughts
I built Jottings because I was tired of my own thoughts getting trapped inside algorithmic feeds where I had to perform. There was a huge mental load before posting something on X or Instagram. Every time I wanted to share something small or unfinished, I opened Twitter and lost 20 minutes to the timeline. Writing a blog post felt too heavy for those smaller, quick thoughts. I just wanted a place to write something down quickly and hit publish. Jottings is that place. It gives you a clean microblog on a domain you own. Posts show up in simple chronological order. No likes. No followers. No…
Jottings; Anti-social microblog for your thoughts launched on December 12, 2025 with 28 votes, #516 of 11,628 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Jottings is a microblogging platform that lets users publish short thoughts to their own domain without algorithmic feeds, likes, or followers. Posts appear in simple chronological order and support markdown, tags, RSS feeds, and images. It offers a free subdomain or custom domain options, designed for people who want to share unfinished ideas quickly without the mental overhead of traditional social networks.
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From the sources
No algorithm. No likes or replies to chase. No dopamine traps. Just your words, on your own domain, in chronological order. The way the internet was supposed to work.
In the maker’s words, at launch
I built Jottings because I was tired of my own thoughts getting trapped inside algorithmic feeds where I had to perform. There was a huge mental load before posting something on X or Instagram. Every time I wanted to share something small or unfinished, I opened Twitter and lost 20 minutes to the timeline. Writing a…
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