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  • Honestly the format helps a lot.

    One-line confessions with no profiles removes most incentives for bots or farming.

  • We normalized locking animals in apartments for our comfort.

    And burning fuel to cross continents for a weekend.

  • That’s the interesting part.

    If people know their name and profile are attached, they filter themselves.

    When identity disappears, you sometimes get chaos, but you also get honesty people never show anywhere else.

    The question is whether the honesty outweighs the chaos.

  • PostSecret is interesting because it's anonymous but still curated.

    What I'm experimenting with is even simpler.

    No profiles. No identity. Just very short one-line confessions people were never supposed to say out loud.

    More like raw thoughts than stories.

  • That’s true to some extent.

    The idea isn’t zero moderation, it’s shifting it away from identity. Rooms can set rules and remove posts, but the system itself doesn’t track who people are.

    So the control happens at the room level rather than through accounts or personal identity.

  • That’s actually the most interesting part.

    People are curious about what others really think but never say out loud. Confessions, secrets, uncomfortable truths.

    It’s the same reason anonymous confession pages and posts tend to spread so easily.

  • That’s a fair concern.

    The intention isn’t to create a space for advice or coordination. Posts are limited to very short one-line confessions and rooms can set strict rules about what’s allowed.

    More like people admitting something they’ve never said out loud than discussing how to do things.

  • Those are really good points.

    The legal side is something I’ve been thinking about as well. The idea is to store as little as possible and avoid accounts entirely.

    But you’re right that anonymity online always has limits.

  • True. Some people will always seek those spaces.

    The idea isn't to eliminate that behavior.

    It's more about creating rooms where the default incentive is sharing something personal rather than provoking reactions.

  • That's a really good point.

    Any anonymous input system will attract bots sooner or later.

    The experiment is partly about seeing how much structure (rooms, hosts, limited formats) changes that dynamic compared to open anonymous boards.

  • That's a fair concern.

    Absolute anonymity probably doesn't exist anywhere online.

    The idea is more about minimizing identity: no profiles, no history, and posts not tied to accounts. If something leaks, it can't expose a whole identity because there isn't one attached.

  • That's true in theory.

    But most anonymous spaces today are still built around profiles, threads, or reputation.

    What I'm curious about is whether people behave differently when the post is literally the only thing that exists. No profile. No history. Just the confession itself.

  • That hesitation is exactly the interesting part.

    Most people have something they would never say publicly. The question is whether anonymity actually changes that.

  • Fair concern.

    4chan is anonymous but completely unstructured.

    Backroom is built around hosts running rooms with their own rules. If a room becomes toxic, people simply stop entering it.

    So moderation happens at the room level, not through identity.

  • Ironing always felt like a ritual people inherited without questioning.

  • And somehow everyone just accepts it as normal litter.

  • Yeah. A handful of companies basically shaping how billions of people talk to each other.

  • Good question.

    The idea is basically to remove identity completely. No accounts required to read. Posting is session based and nothing links back to a person. Even chats auto-delete after 24h.

    The goal is that the secret is the only thing that exists. Not the person behind it.

    Funding later would probably come from hosts running rooms people pay a small amount to enter. But right now it’s just an experiment to see if people actually want a place like this.

  • That’s the strange part.

    Millions of people watch repair videos, but far fewer actually repair things themselves.