Who built this

I’m Craig Constantine. I make things — writing, conversations, and this — around one quiet idea: presence, not pursuit. I built this place and I look after it.

Why I built it

I wanted a place to share with the people I actually know that was truly mine and truly private. Not a feed. Not an audience. No ads, no tracking, no algorithm deciding who sees what, no stranger wandering in. You invite the people you want, and that’s exactly who’s there.

The choices were grim: post it to a social network, where it gets shredded into a feed, ranked by a machine, and shown to strangers and advertisers — or fire the same photos into six group chats and lose every one of them by Christmas.

Neither of those is a microblog. A microblog is a story, in order, kept.

And I wanted it to last. What you make here is yours: you can pack up everything — words, photos, video — and take it with you, any time, in a form you can actually open and read. Nothing you make is ever trapped.

Who it’s for

People with something to share and a particular circle to share it with — family, close friends, the ones who were actually on the trip or knew the person. Not the public, not followers, not an audience you’re trying to grow. If you’ve ever wanted to post something and thought “but not for everyone,” this is the place for that.

There’s no sign-up page, and that’s deliberate. I make these by hand, one at a time, for people I know. If you’d like one, just ask me.

How it works

Plainly, and on purpose. Every microblog gets its own little database, so your things live apart from everyone else’s. Photos and video sit on storage built to hold them, everything travels encrypted, and there’s no analytics package studying you — because I don’t want to know. It runs lean enough that the whole thing costs pennies to keep, which is why there is nothing to pay for and nothing being sold.

If something here doesn’t feel right, or you just want to say hello, I read every note: team@microblog.place.