How it works

No photographs, no video, no autoplay. A post is a heading, a body, or both. Even profile pictures are characters rather than images. What you scroll past is what somebody actually wrote.

Every post, profile, collection, follow list and saved list is readable by any signed-in user. There are no private accounts, no close-friends lists and no privacy settings, because there is nothing to configure.

Collections are folders you make for your own writing. A post cannot exist outside one. It is closer to chapters in a book than to a timeline of loose thoughts.

Every account starts with one collection, thoughts, so the first post always has a home. Make as many more as you like, up to 50, and choose the folder each time you post. Collections you make can be deleted, posts and all; the default can only be cleared.

One level, always. Every comment answers the post, never another comment. Nothing nests, nothing collapses, and no argument can bury the thing it started from.

There is no edit. A published post keeps the words it was published with, for as long as it exists. If it is wrong, delete it and say so again properly.

A username and a display name are chosen once and never change. That is why a name on an old post is still the right name today, and why nobody can quietly become somebody else.

Delete means delete. A removed post takes its comments, votes and bookmarks with it. There is no archive, no recycle bin and no undo — and the same is true of deleting your account.

Upvotes and downvotes both show, side by side, on every post. Most platforms hide the second number so everything looks liked. Optoir shows it, because a number that can only go up tells you nothing.

Five per person per day, and never for your own post. Five is not enough to hand out freely, which is the point: you have to pass over posts you liked in order to back the one you rate most. A vouch counts for more than an upvote precisely because giving it costs you the chance to give it elsewhere. People spend them; they do not scatter them.

A post earns the badge once it has at least 8 interactions and its quality score clears the bar. Upvotes, comments and vouches push the score up; downvotes and reports pull it down; the total is divided by the square root of engagement so volume alone never carries a post over the line. Once earned, the badge stays unless the post is deleted or moderated.

Every post carries two numbers doing two different jobs. The badge score asks whether the post is good: upvotes, comments and vouches raise it, downvotes and reports lower it, and the total is divided by the square root of engagement so volume alone proves nothing. The ranking score asks where the post belongs, and weighs the same signals differently — a comment counts for more than an upvote there, and a vouch for more than a comment.

A post is born with a freshness bonus that decays over roughly half a day, so recent writing gets its chance to be seen. After that the bonus is gone and the post holds its place on merit or sinks. A report costs it more than any single upvote, comment or vouch can give back. It is arithmetic on votes and time — no AI and no personalised model decides what you see.

Follow someone and their posts arrive in your home feed. There is nothing to approve and no way to be refused, because their posts were public before you followed and remain public after.

Unfollow removes someone from your feed. Report deals with anything that breaks the rules. Blocking is not offered because on a fully public platform it would hide nothing — it would only tell you it had.

Report lives behind the three dots on a post and is a single button — no categories, no form, one report per account per post. It costs the post an immediate scoring penalty, the heaviest single negative there is, and enough reports remove the post automatically; below that line a person decides. Accounts are different: only an admin can ever remove one, never a formula.

A single tap on the tab you are already standing on scrolls you back to the top of what is already loaded — instant, nothing fetched, nothing new. Tap the same tab twice in quick succession to actually reload: the surface refreshes and new posts come in. Home, Search and your profile all work exactly this way.

A post shows about ten lines in the feed before Read more appears. Nothing has been removed — opening the post shows the whole thing, along with its comments.

Three things, and you can see all of them. Your sign-in details from Google or Apple. What you chose to publish — public by design. And a push token so notifications reach your phone. No analytics package, no behavioural tracking, no activity profile.

Your data is not sold, rented, or given to brokers, and no advertising profile of you is built. Others seeing your public posts is the entire exchange. The ads come from Google, which manages its own ad data — and Optoir Plus removes the ads altogether. Delete your account and everything Optoir holds goes with it.

Nothing here is written, ranked, summarised or moderated by AI. Every word you read was typed by somebody, and every judgement was made by arithmetic or by a person.

Ads in the feed, always labelled as promoted, and an optional subscription that removes them. Nothing else is sold, and your posts are not the product.