Knots is a fictional, fully local, single-page mockup of a social platform. Nothing you do here — posting, attaching an image, changing an avatar — sends data anywhere. There is no server, no account, no network request. Everything happens in your browser and disappears the moment you close the tab.
This started as a joke about a real, ordinary experience: getting a post removed from a mainstream platform for a reason that felt disproportionate, vague, or impossible to appeal — the kind of "violates our Community Standards" notice that gives you no real explanation and no real recourse.
Knots takes that feeling and turns the dial past its stop. Post a plain sentence and you might get banned for "excessive punctuation." Attach a photo of your lunch and the interface accuses you of terrorism. Change your profile picture and it threatens to call the FBI. None of it is real. None of it is a comment on any specific company, platform, or moderation team. It's an exaggeration built to be obviously absurd — the escalation is the joke.
Automated content moderation at scale is a real and genuinely hard problem — but the user-facing experience of it is often opaque: a canned message, a confidence score nobody can question, and no visible human in the loop. Knots exaggerates that opacity for comic effect. It is not a factual claim about how any real platform's moderation actually works.
It isn't a working clone of any real product, it doesn't use any real company's code, assets, or branding, and it isn't meant to be mistaken for a genuine moderation system, government notice, or law-enforcement communication.