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Is it possible to create a site where users can anonymous post thoughts/essay?
Looking back in history lot of monumental changes occurred when someone clearly put an idea into words and shared with the world. Usually referred to as "Essay of ..." or "Papers on theory...". Reddit is too reactive, I want a place where people can post long observations, thoughts, opinions but without them or site getting into any legal trouble. Complete freedom of speech. Could be about criticizing govts, hate speech, alternative science theories, anything... I know it'd suck. But I find it hard to make the site "the place" without accepting the crap.
- adrian85858 5y ago4chan, or any chan imageboard. There's a reason they're popular. You get unfiltered human response because people are anonymous. This includes some of the most inane shit you could probably handle. but there's chan boards about any topic, from technology to pornography to drugs.
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- holonomically 5y agoThe issue is lack of identities. If you make it completely anonymous then it will turn into a troll farm. If you require full identities then it'll turn into Facebook (or something like it). Blockchains add private keys and economic incentives for maintaining identities associated with those keys but there has yet to be any actual social platform that operates in a decentralized way because most of the crypto thought leaders just hang out on Twitter and Reddit. This is a hard problem and adding another publishing platform into the mix is unlikely to lead to any worthwhile outcomes because every variation of this has basically already been tried and they have all failed. My guess is that digital platforms are just not a good medium for generating worthwhile content. The incentives and feedback loops are not conducive for creating anything worthwhile and lasting. The more people that are added into the mix the more diffuse everything becomes until eventually the only things gaining traction are the lowest common denominators of human cognition like shower thoughts, cute animal pictures, celebrity gossip, conspiracy theories, and general pop culture. One thing HN gets right is its focus on technology. Any other platform will have to pick some kind of similar niche and pursue it with laser focus to have any chance of producing anything worthwhile.
- Pokepokalypse 5y ago4chan?
- webmaven 5y agoYou might consider pseudonymity (esp. w. generated usernames) rather than anonymity. It solves some problems, while introducing or exacerbating others, but I think it might be a closer match to your stated aims.
- lifeplusplus 5y agobut what happens if someone posts really unpopular at the moment... how much Section 230 protects site owners. ie. DMCA requests. or how craigslist's took down their personal section to not get jailed like other website.