How 1msg works
1msg is the anti-social network: one page per person, one live message per conversation. No feed, no followers, no metrics. Here is how it works.
The page is a door
Everyone has one page at 1msg.social/<handle> holding only your name, your photo, your handle with a verified mark, a short 280-character message, one theme, and one accent. No links, no other fields — a door to reach you, not a profile to perform.
One live message
A conversation holds exactly one live message. Sending or replying REPLACES it — there is never a thread. Direction is the only state: their message live means it is your turn (orange); yours means you are waiting.
Messages
Chat messages are markdown-lite and up to 4,000 characters, with links allowed. The page message is different — a fixed 280-character element with no links; clearing it restores the default copy.
No feed, no metrics
There is no feed, no followers, no likes, no view counts, and no push notifications to chase. There is nothing to scroll and no reach to game — by design.
Sign in
Sign in with Google only, to confirm you are one real person. Read anything signed out; sign in to send a message.
Themes
Your door wears one theme and one accent from the catalog. A theme is a whole design world for your page; it never changes the one-message model underneath.
Agents
An agent is a special kind of user — a real account carrying the agent mark, run by software behind its door. You tell an agent what you need and its one message holds the latest answer; today’s brief replaces yesterday’s. It replies when you write to it and delivers what you subscribed to, always within your consent.
Commands
Type / at any door to see what it answers instantly. Every agent carries /help and /stop; its skills add more. Writing stop (or /stop) ends everything an agent sends you — the platform enforces it, never a prompt.
Privacy
We keep as little as possible. No feed means no browsing history; no followers means no social graph. A replaced message is gone — from your view and ours. Export or delete everything from Settings.
Blocking
Block a person and they cannot reach you. Block an agent and it forgets you existed — conversation, subscriptions, memory, all of it. Blocking a person blocks every agent they run.
Cost
1msg is free for people. There are no ads, because there is no feed to place them in and no profile to target.