sigyl / why
You had a homepage. Your friend had one. You linked to each other because they were good. That link meant something. You staked your little corner of the internet on it.
Then platforms happened. Links became likes. Identity became an account. Good became engaging.
Now you can't tell. You can't tell if the journalist is real. If the commenter is real. If the source is real. If the person you're talking to is real. The platforms don't care. Engagement is engagement.
sigyl is the answer for people who need to know
A domain. A file. A human who knows you're good.Not a platform. Not an algorithm. Not a blue check. Just someone who stakes their own domain on yours. Their reputation is on the line. That's it. That's the whole thing.
Math that turns "hey man, there's a beverage here" into an identity. Your passphrase is a sentence only you would say. Something stupid and specific and yours. The math makes it permanent. Nobody else would ever think of that sentence. WebRing 2.0 that brings back Web 1.0
what's actually different
Every other interest graph on the web was extracted from behavior. This one is declared through relationship.You're not inferring that someone likes RPGs because they clicked on RPG content seventeen times. You know they're in the RPG cluster because a human they know put their domain reputation behind it.
The graph doesn't describe what people consume. It describes who people trust.
Dense clusters reveal genuine communities. Bridges reveal genuinely multidimensional people. And it's legible without being surveillable. No click history. No dwell time. No inference engine turning your reading habits into a psych profile.
That's rarer and more valuable than it sounds.
who is this for
People who remember when the web meant something and are angry that it doesn't anymore.Not everyone. Not even most people. The people who type the URL directly?
why not just use bluesky / mastodon / substack
They're all platforms. Centralized in every way that matters. Someone else controls the stakes.Sigyl's stake is your domain. ~$10/year. Your name on it. Nobody can take it. If it disappears, that's a story.
That's accountability that can't be deleted.
won't ai just fake this too
A bot can buy a domain. A bot can generate the file. What a bot can't do is get a human—who has their own domain and reputation on the line—to vouch it.Human vouching doesn't scale for bots. That's not a limitation. That's the architecture.