Guide

Words

sizuq uses a small vocabulary of its own. This page pins each word to one meaning so the rest of the guide can be read literally.

The vocabulary

Word	What it means
drop	One piece of writing. Short or long, titled or untitled. Its address is /drop/ plus a short id.
Observatory	The shared reading surface on sizuq.com, where drops from you and the people you have added as friends appear. Its address is /drops.
garden	Your own publishing surface, at your-handle.sizuq.com or a domain you own. Same writing, presented your way.
Constellation	Your private home: the shape of everything you have kept, arranged by theme and by season.
resonance	What a reader can leave on a drop instead of a rating. There are several kinds and sizuq never totals them.
friend	Someone whose drops you want in your Observatory. One-directional and quiet — they are not told to add you back.
whisper	A notice that something echoed back: a resonance, or a new friend. Never a number.
space	A room several people write into. Public spaces anyone can enter; private ones need an invite link.
Reflection	The cooling-off period between writing a drop and sharing it.
worldview preset	The typography and palette a surface is dressed in — lucid, calm, classic, terminal, module, aurora.
orbit	A link hub: a single page of links instead of a feed of writing.

A few words are used twice in the interface, and knowing which sense is meant saves a lot of confusion.

Garden is both a place and a plan. Lowercase, it is your publishing surface. Capitalised, it is the middle paid plan. Only the plans page uses it as a name.
Worldview is both a theme and a bio field. The theme axis is always called a worldview preset in this guide. The free-text Worldview field on your profile is something you write, not something you pick.
Sites is what the settings screen calls gardens. The section is Settings → Sites & domains; the thing it manages is a garden.
Feed only ever means RSS here. The reading surface is the Observatory.

This is the split that catches people first. Everything you write lives once, and is shown in two places.

	sizuq.com	your garden
What it is	The shared network — Observatory, Compose, Constellation, spaces	Your own site, presented and named by you
Who it is for	You and the people you read	Anyone you send the address to
Where you write	Here. Composing and editing only ever happen on sizuq.com	Nowhere — a garden is a way of showing, not writing

So a garden is not a second account and not a copy. It is a second window onto the same drops, and you can have more than one of them.